v. Med. [f. VARIOLA: see -ATE.] trans. To infect with variola; to inoculate with the virus of variola or small-pox.
c. 1792. [implied in Variolated ppl. a.].
1810. Edin. Rev., XV. 329. The total number of those vaccinated … is perhaps not less than those variolated.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 24/2. The proof being to variolate the cow on the udder.
1898. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 7 May, 1185. He had altogether failed in attempts to variolate the cow.
Hence Variolated ppl. a.
c. 1792. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), IX. 246/1. The Chinese convey a pellet of variolated cotton … into the nostrils of the patient.
1801. Jenner, in Ring, Treat. Cow-pox, 24. From variolated pustules one cannot be surprised to hear, that a disease has been communicated by effluvia.
1845. Encycl. Metrop., VII. 754/2. If the patient be exposed to a variolated atmosphere at the time he is vaccinated.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 649. The final scab on the site of inoculation is not so elevated in the variolated as in the vaccinated animals.
