Variolation was the method of inoculation first used to immunize individuals against smallpox (Variola) with material taken from a patient or a recently...

as variolation, was first practiced in China in the 10th century. Methods of carrying out the procedure varied depending upon location. Variolation was...

flourishing variolation practice, may have considered this option but used smallpox instead. He thought vaccination offered no advantage over variolation, but...

inoculation was most likely smallpox, with the first recorded use of variolation occurring in the 16th century in China. It was also the first disease...

Berkeley's School and in Cirencester. During this time, he was inoculated (by variolation) for smallpox, which had a lifelong effect upon his general health. At...

natural infection. Until the early 1800s inoculation referred only to variolation (from the Latin word variola = smallpox), the predecessor to the smallpox...

earliest recorded artificial induction of immunity in humans was by variolation or inoculation, which is the controlled infection of a subject with a...

Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather, to the principle and procedure of the variolation method of inoculation, which prevented smallpox and laid the foundation...

fleeces on their backs imaginable." The concept of preventing smallpox by variolation was introduced to colonial America by an African slave named Onesimus...

By the late 16th century, there existed some forms of inoculation and variolation in Africa and the Middle East. One practice features Arab traders in...