uvulotomy (u-vu-lot'o-me)

See staphylotvirus as a protective measure against smallpox. Recently the term has been extensively applied to inoculation with various other viruses, anthracic v. Inoculation of animals with attenuated cultivations of the anthrax bacillus, anti choleraic v. Inoculation with dead cultures of the Spirillum cholerae, to prevent Asiatic cholera, antiplague v. Inoculations with dead cultures of Bacillus pest is, in order to produce immunity to bubonic plague, anti rabic v. Protective inocuulatiott against rabies. The virus is inoculated from rabbit to rabbit until it attains its maximum virulence. This is known as fixed virus and kills a rabbit in about seven days after subdural inoculation. The spinal cord from a rabbit so killed is dried over sticks of caustic potash. At the end of fourteen days it is practically avirulent. A portion of this cord emulsified in saline solution forms the first injection. Succe ive injections are made with material from cords dried for shorter and shorter periods until fresh cord is used, antityphoid v. Inoculation with dead cultures of the Bacillus typhosus, in order to produce immunity to typhoid. intra-uterine v. Variolus immunity communicated by the mother to the fetus as the result of her having been succe fully vaccinated during pregnancy.