单词 | vaccine point |
释义 | > as lemmasvaccine point j. Medicine. An instrument with a point; spec. a small sharpened piece of bone, ivory, wood, etc., coated with vaccine matter (which was usually allowed to dry) and used for vaccination (more fully vaccine point). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > other applicators seton-needle1672 burras-pipe1676 point1799 marsupium1842 wafer-paper1860 insufflator1872 douchebag1883 tampon-screwa1884 irrigator1887 ointment carrier1897 1799 C. Kampfmuller tr. F. C. Schumacher in Exper. with Metallic Tractors i. 10 On the application of some of them he felt a burning pain to the toes... The points of ebony and ivory were tried; no such heat was perceived here. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 544 I take the liberty to request you will be pleased to send me, per packet, ..a few ivory points coated with vaccine matter. 1831 Lancet 16 July 497/1 The medical gentlemen employed in the National Vaccine Establishment of London may be surprised that I have not taken note of the platina, bone, wooden, &c. points made use of by them in the preserving and transmitting of vaccine virus to a distance. 1858 Med. Times & Gaz. 23 Oct. 428/2 The caustic is cut into little pointed laths, very like our vaccine points. 1885 Times 10 Apr. 4/6 The importance of using vaccine lymph fresh from the arm of a vaccinifer in preference to that which has been stored..in tubes or on points. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 776 Our practice is confined to two methods, namely tonsillotomy and the galvano-caustic point. 1948 Obituary Notices of Fellows of Royal Soc. 6 41 Cheyne, in 1850, advocated the superiority of human vaccine lymph kept fluid by the addition of the minimal amount of glycerine over that dried on points in the usual way. 2010 Health & Hist. 12 143 The search for new sources of spontaneous cowpox and the difficulties physicians had in preserving cowpox stocks on threads, glass or ivory points. < as lemmas |
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