Definition of Variolous. Meaning of Variolous. Synonyms of Variolous

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Definition of Variolous

Variolous
Variolous Va*ri"o*lous, a. [LL. variolosus, fr. variola the smallpox: cf. F. varioleux.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.

Meaning of Variolous from wikipedia

- Variolation was the method of inoculation first used to immunize individuals against smallpox (Variola) with material taken from a patient or a recently...
- with variolous material, the routine method of immunization at that time and again no disease followed. The boy was later challenged with variolous material...
- Campbell argued that scientific evidence concerning the viability of variolous matter (used for inoculation) did not support the possibility of the disease...
- Jennifer Glynn, in The life and death of smallpox, confirm that bottles of "variolous matter" were carried to Australia for use as a vaccine, but think it unlikely...
- introduced accidentally when Aboriginal people came into contact with variolous matter brought by the First Fleet for use in anti-smallpox inoculations...
- the only possible source of infection from the Fleet being exposure to variolous matter imported for the purposes of inoculation against smallpox. Campbell...
- Schools of Paris, describing hospital practice there, and A History of the Variolous Epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819. Crosse worked on...
- presumptive proofs deduced from the laws of other morbid poisons, that the variolous and vaccine is the same. He contended that the character of the disease...
- with the first British settlers at Sydney. "Our surgeons brought out variolous matter in bottles", he wrote, "but to infer that it was produced from...
- there is also evidence that smallpox spread from Sydney Cove, after 'variolous matter' was brought there in 1788 by the First Fleet. This dried matter...