Med. [f. prec.] Inoculation with the virus of small-pox.
1805. Med. Jrnl., XIV. 536. A remarkable coincidence of failure … of variolation as well as vaccination.
1810. Edin. Rev., XV. 340. It [i.e., vaccination] has been adopted by millions who never would have submitted to variolation.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 559. The practice of variolation, which was revived and introduced into Great Britain by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
