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inoculationInjection into the body of dead or weakened disease-carrying organisms or their toxins (vaccine) to produce immunity by inducing a mild form of a disease. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I will procure a consultation of physicians, and see whether this wondrous inoculation may not stay the progress of the destroyer. Morison saw a ray of hope in this indication of future immunity through inoculation. The physiology, the chemical rhythm of the creature, may also be made to undergo an enduring modification,--of which vaccination and other methods of inoculation with living or dead matter are examples that will, no doubt, be familiar to you. |
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