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English
Etymology
From Latin vacca (“cow”) + -ous.
Adjective
vacciolous (comparative more vacciolous, superlative most vacciolous)
- Pertaining to the cowpox virus.
1801, Jonathan Stokes, “Letters to the Editor”, in The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 6, page 386:Cow-pox, or, as I have proposed to name them, the Vacciola scutellata and leprosa, as nothing within my sphere of observation has tended to retard the progress of the new inoculation so much as the difficulty which inexperienced inoculators find in learning to distinguish the two diseases, which unhappily the vacciolous virus is capable of producing.
1804, Frederic Thackeray, “Letters to the Editor”, in The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 12, page 331:In the year 1801, a gentleman inoculated his own two boys and two of his servants with vacciolous matter, that was sent by Dr. Pearson; on the eighth, tenth, and twelfth days I Saw their arms, and was well satisfied that vacciolation had taken place.
1804, John Feltham, The Picture of London, for 1804, page 216:The object of this society is the total extermination of the small pox, by substituting in its stead the vacciolous.
1804, Mr. Coley, “A Case of Inoculated Cow-Pock Succeeded by a Confluent Eruption of Genuine Vaccine Vesicles on the Labia Pudendi; Occasioned by an Act of the Patient Herself”, in The Medical and Physical Journal:… on the fore parts of each labium were three or four very distinct and well formed circular pustules, evidently of the genuine vacciolous kind?