varioloidadj.n.

1818 J. Thomson in Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 518 (title) Some observations on the varioloid disease, which has lately prevailed in Edinburgh, and on the identity of chicken-pox and modified small-pox.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) III. 99 The varioloid eruption is formed in the true skin... On the other hand, chicken-pox is situated in the cellular tissue between the skin and cuticle.

1851 T. R. Leadam Homœopathy 354 Varioloid Diseases. This term is applied to those diseases which resemble small-pox, and are more or less dependent upon the same epidemical constitution of the atmosphere for their production.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 479 Sometimes it [sc. vesiculation of papules in lichen urticatus] is partial, and a varioloid lesion results.

1947 Public Health 60 78/2 The comparison may be made with the sparsity and relatively superficial character of the varioloid eruption of smallpox modified by vaccination.

2002 Ann. Internal Med. 137 996/2 Of 230 patients for whom the form of smallpox [in the 1901–3 Boston epidemic] was listed, 109 had varioloid disease.

1820 W. Crane in Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 152 Hence we may say that syphilis and syphiloid are, in fact, two very different diseases.., which is not the case with the variola and varioloid.

1821 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 17 476 (heading) Dr. Jenner's Circular to the Medical Profession, pointing out the causes of those affections which have occasionally followed Vaccinia and Variola, known by the term Varioloids.

1860 R. W. Emerson Culture in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 116 Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

1870 T. W. Higginson Army Life 234 A case or two of varioloid in the regiment.

1917 W. A. Pusey Princ. & Pract. Dermatol. (ed. 3) 246 When varioloid follows vaccination it is in cases in which the vaccination was not perfect or the immunity which it confers has partially failed.

1931 Lancet 24 Jan. 211/1 Is not this ‘alastrim’ only a new and useless name for the old term ‘varioloid’, which denoted a clinical form of the disease which was modified, mitigated, or aborted?

1991 R. W. B. Lewis Jameses ii. vi. 174 Agassiz..was of the opinion that his assistant had been hit rather by varioloid, a lesser disease that resembles variola, or smallpox.

2001 L. Menand Metaphysical Club (2002) vi. 138 Soon after the expedition arrived, he came down with a form of smallpox, probably varioloid, and spent two and a half weeks in a maison de santé.

1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 434/2 The only disease with which chicken-pox is liable to be confounded is that which we have already described under the title of modified small-pox, or varicella variolodes... In even the mildest form of varioloid varicella there is fever, and very often severe affection of the brain and nervous system.

1867 I. Anderson in Trans. Epidemiol. Soc. 1862–6 2 414 (title) On epidemic varioloid varicella in Jamaica.

1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Oct. 1017/2 The use of the words varioloid varicella to designate the disease is to be strongly condemned. The term of course merely refers to varicella of a relatively severe type, irregular in some of its features, such as the prolonged period of invasion, but essentially varicella.