retrovaccinationn.
/ˌrɛtrəʊˌvaksᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛtroʊˌvæksəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Medicine. Now historical.
The process of inoculating cattle with lymph obtained from human subjects vaccinated with cowpox or vaccinia virus.
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retrovaccination1839
1839 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 8 615 Experiments in retro-vaccination, or vaccination of the cow from the human subject.
1866 Times 20 Jan. 5/3 The retro-vaccination of the cow with humanized lymph is a different affair.
1934 Zinsser's Textbk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) vii. lxi. 897 Again, they [sc. calves] may be inoculated with ‘seed virus’ obtained from the vesicles of human vaccinia. This method of using humanized virus for the inoculation of calves for vaccine production is preferred by many workers and is referred to as ‘retrovaccination’.
2006 Lancet 1 Apr. 1113/1 Cory's motives are uncertain, but in letters he wrote to The Times in 1878 and 1879 he argued against the practice of raising animal lymph by ‘retro-vaccination’ of calves with human lymph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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