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Meanings of variolation in English
The obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox.
Usage of variolation in English
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Later it came to be known as variolation and was widely practised in Britain until replaced by Jenner's vaccine inoculation, Gower said.