Past eur i an (paster i an)

[ Lancet, No. 3468, p. 360. See Pasteurism. Past eur ing (pas-ter'ing), n. [ teurism)+- ing1.] The proce of aging wines artificially according to Pasteur's method. Pasteurism (pas-ter'izm), n. [ inoculation of the attenuated virus of certain diseases, especially of hydrophobia, as devised by the French scientist Louis Pasteur (born 1822). Pasteur's method in hydrophobia consists, e entially, in progre ive inoculation with le and le at. tenuated virus until the use of that of a high degree of intensity is attained. The virus, in its different degrees of virulency, is obtained from the spinal cord of rabid rabbits which have acquired the maximum intensity of the disease after a repeated transference of the virus from one animal to another. Sections of the cord free from foreign germs are allowed to remain, for different periods of time, in a sterilized and dry atmosphere, whereby the virulency of the virus becomes progre ively diminished, until it is finally completely lost. 2. Same as Pasteurization.