单词 | vaccinin |
释义 | vaccininn. 1. Homeopathy. A preparation of the infective matter of cowpox used as a nosode. Cf. varioline n. 1. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1835 Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathia Apr. 82 Vaccinin has been applied in conjunction with other remedies, by Homœopathic physicians in the treatment of small-pox. 1873 New-Eng. Med. Gaz. 8 243 Dr. Hering recommended Vaccinine taken internally as a prophylactic, when an epidemic [of small-pox] is prevailing. 1901 Homœopathic Recorder 16 546 Provings made by Dr. Fincke made with Variolin and Vaccinin indicate a partial similarity of the two diseases, variola and vaccinia. 1998 E. Wolff in R. Jütte et al. Culture, Knowl., & Healing 232 Potentised vaccine (vaccinin) or potentised smallpox material, variolin, is recommended more or less frequently as a preventive. 2. Chiefly in the terminology of William Farr: a zymotic agent or toxin thought to be involved in the causation of cowpox or disease resulting from vaccination with cowpox. Cf. varioline n. 2. rare. Now historical. ΚΠ 1842 W. Farr in 4th Ann. Rep. Registrar-Gen. Births, Deaths, & Marriages Eng. 119 While the diseases described are distinct, it will be most convenient to consider their exciters as distinct, although they may be convertible into each other, and be as nearly related as varioline and vaccinine. 1898 Lancet 14 May 1306/1 M. Ruete..obtained what what he believed to be pure cultures of the specific agent of vaccine, this consisting of a micrococcus, the toxin elaborated by which he termed vaccinin. 1954 Jrnl. Hist. Med. & Allied Sci. 9 296 (table) Cow-pox... Vaccinine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1835 |
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