Path. [med.L. variola pustule, pox, f. L. varius speckled, variegated. Cf. F. variole and vérole (OF. verole, vairole), = Prov. vairolo, Cat. verola, Sp. viruela, It. vajuole fem. pl., and vajuolo.] The small-pox.
1771–1804. [see VARICELLA].
1825. Good, Study Med. (ed. 2), III. 85. The adjunct spurious or bastard variola.
1846. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., II. 282. M. Solon found the urine coagulable in five out of eleven cases of variola.
1877. F. T. Roberts, Handbk. Med. (ed. 3), I. 149. Variola may be met with at any age.
Comb. 1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 648. Numerous strains of so called variola-vaccine lymph.
1898. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 7 May, 1185. The measure of protection afforded these children by his variola-descended lymph.
