VACCINATION

n. Va2k-si2n-a's hu3n. Lat., vaccinatio. Fr., v. Ger., Kuhpockenimpfung, Impfung, V. Inoculation with vaccine virus as a protective measure against small-pox. [D; G.] Recently the term has been improperly applied to inoculation with various other viruses. Anthracic v. Inoculation of animals with attenuated cultivations of the anthrax bacillus, [a, 34.] Chemical v. Of Oastaneda and Borda, a v. done experimentally upon aninials by injecting subcutaneously urine from yellow-fever patients, in the hope of its containing some chemical substance (perhaps a ptomaine) secreted by the specific micro-organism capable of affording protection against the disease. [" Lancet," Mar. 1, 1890, p. 481 (a, 50).] Intra-uterine y. It., vaccinazione intra-uterina. Variolous immunity communicated by the mother to the foetus as the result of her having been succe fully vaccinated during pregnancy. [L, 87 (a, 34).] Retro-v. The communication of vaccinia from man to the cow. [D, 1.] V. anti rabi que (Fr.). Protective inoculation against rabies. The virus is secured by a series of inoculations of virus from the central nervous system of an animal dead of rabies under the dura of healthy animals; an emulsion is made of the spinal cord after it has dried for fourteen days, and some of this is inoculated into the animal to be protected, then the latter is inoculated with an emulsion of a cord dried for thirteen days, and so on in a decreasing series until an emulsion of fresh cord is used. [" N. Y. Med. Jour.," Oct. 26, 1886, p. 462 (a, 34).] V's zwang (Ger.). Compulsory vaccination, [a, 14.] [s. 684]