SYPHILIZATION

n. Siaf-i2l-i2z-a'sh'n. Fr., syphilisation. The act of inoculating the system with the virus of syphilis, or the condition of being thus inoculated. The practice of s. as employed by Sperino, Bidenkap, Boeck, and others, consisted uf making multiple inoculations of virus (supposed at the time to be syphilitic, but now known to have, been simply inoculable pus from soft venereal sores or from syphilitic chancres that had been irritated and made to suppurate freely), which were continued until the skin ceased to react and no further sores could be produced, when the individual was supposed to be syphilized and to be proof against further syphilitic effects. [G.] [s. 584]