单词 | syphilization |
释义 | syphilizationn. Medicine. Originally: inoculation with material from a syphilitic lesion, as a (supposed) method of prevention or treatment for syphilis (now historical). In later use also: infection with syphilis (frequently with punning allusion to civilization n.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [noun] > immunization > immunization against venereal disease syphilization1851 propho1919 1851 Lancet 11 Oct. 346/2 Whether what is called syphilization is a good and allowable thing, is very questionable. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. ii. 92 Syphilisation originated in 1844 in some experiments of M. Auzias Turenne upon animals to inoculate them with syphilis. 1899 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 18 Mar. 622/1 The gospel of health, mental and physical, spread by practical enthusiasts, gives greater reason to hope for the civilization of the heathen than the preaching by the fanatic zealots, who have only succeeded in opening the gate to their syphilization and tuberculization. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 311 And Bloom trying to back him moderation and botheration and their colonies and their civilisation. Their syphilisation, you mean, says the citizen. 1936 Lancet 22 Aug. 449/2 The introduction of syphilis is undoubtedly due to the colonising nations, France, England, and Portugal being responsible for the syphilisation of their African colonies. 1974 Med. Care 12 91/1 The old cliché that civilization brings syphilization is an oversimplified statement, but the process of ‘westernization’ does require careful planning and precautions in order to avoid many undesirable outcomes. 2008 J. Parascandola Sex, Sin, & Sci. 20 By the late 1860s, however, evidence was accumulating that syphilization did not work either as a cure or preventative for syphilis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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