variolinen.

1836 S. Simpson Pract. View Homœopathy i. 100 Admitting however the principle to be correct, it would appear to be applicable only to contagious diseases, or such as are characterized by the production of a substance capable of inducing similar diseases in healthy individuals, such as varioline, vaccine, psorine, syphilitine, &c.

1854 Brit. Jrnl. Homœopathy 12 262 I have tried also Varioline (small-pox matter) in chronic inflammation of eyelids left by small-pox, but also without result.

1871 Hahnemannian Monthly Jan. 274 Few if any persons who have been vaccinated or revaccinated soon after exposure to variolin have experienced its effective impression.

1902 R. Hughes Princ. & Pract. Homœopathy 209 It is varioline which forms the type of such remedies: we are brought into the sphere of isopathy—that is, the treatment of diseases by their own morbid products.

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.

1864 W. Farr Rep. Reg. Gen. Suppl. 34 When any zymotic matter such as varioline, scarlatinine or typhine finds its way into a village.

1895 A. W. Blyth Poisons (ed. 3) 506 The long list of named ptomaines, such as erysipeline, varioline, and others, must have their existence more fully confirmed by more than one observer before they can be accepted as separate entities.

2003 P. Vinten-Johansen et al. Cholera, Chloroform, & Sci. of Med. vii. 183 Farr assigned names for the unseen but hypothesized exciting causes, so that smallpox (variola) was caused by the poison ‘varioline’, cholera by ‘cholerine’, and so on.