[f. VACCINATE v. Cf. F. vaccinateur, It. vaccinatore, Pg. vaccinador, Sp. vacunador.]
1. One who performs, practises, or advocates vaccination.
1808. Reece, Med. Dict., s.v. Cow-pox, How the vaccinators account for this, I am at a loss to conjecture.
1863. Times, 25 April, 11/4. Many public vaccinators, it is said, are wholly incompetent to perform their duty.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 590. In another case the vaccinator … died of erysipelas.
2. An instrument used in performing vaccination.
1875. in Knight, Dict. Mech., 2686/1.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 633. Cases of … septic infection have been known to follow the use of some mechanical vaccinator.
Comb. 1885. Harries, trans. Warlomont’s Anim. Vaccination, 124. [An] apparatus which we have called the vaccinator-trephine.
