[f. VACCINE a. Cf. F. vaccination (a. 1803), It. vaccinazione (1809), Pg. vaccinação, Sp. vacunacion.]
1. The action or practice of inoculating with vaccine matter as a preventative of small-pox.
1800. R. Dunning (title), Some observations on vaccination, and the inoculated cow-pox.
1802. Rep. Committees, Ho. Commons, XIV. 187. Vaccination has justly called forth their particular attention.
1813. Examiner, 26 April, 264/2. Prior to the introduction of vaccination, several hundreds annually died of the small pox.
1846. Brittan, trans. Malgaigne’s Man. Oper. Surg., 60. Vaccination comprises the modes of collecting the vaccine, and of inoculating.
1876. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (1878), 178. Small-pox has died out … in exact proportion as efficient vaccination has been generalised.
b. Inoculation with a virus.
1891. Nature, 3 Sept. To the old dangerous method…, Pasteur had added the less dangerous one of preventive in oculation by means of an attenuated virus, to which he had applied the term vaccination.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 711. The vaccination [with anti-rabic fluid] is usually made into the subcutaneous connective tissues of the sheep.
2. attrib., as vaccination act, defaulter, law, officer, scar, etc.
1867. Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 690/1. In 1841, the Vaccination Act was passed.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 28. To make the vaccination law more stringent. Ibid., 30. To certify to the vaccination officer the fact of vaccination.
1897. Daily News, 18 Sept., 3/3. Inflicting repeated penalties on vaccination defaulters.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 627. Any case of cancer affecting the vaccination scar.
Hence Vaccinationist, a believer in the efficacy of vaccination.
1867. Epps, in Daily News, 11 March, 3/5. In some the vaccine taint dies out…. Well, say the compulsory vaccinationists, we must get the power to order re-vaccination.
1885. Pall Mall G., 24 March, 2/1. This and similar allegations form the sheet-anchor of the vaccinationist.
