v. Med. and Path. [ad. F. syphiliser: see SYPHILIS and -IZE.] trans. To inoculate with the virus of syphilis, as a means of cure or prevention; also, to infect with syphilis.
1854. H. Lee, Six Lect. Syphilitic Infection, v. 50. He [sc. Turenne in 1850] concluded that the third inoculated ulcer bore the same relation to the second as the second did to the first, and so on until the animal became proof against any further inoculation. The animal was then said by M. Auzias [Turenne] to be ‘syphilised.’ Ibid., 51. ‘It is certain,’ says Dr. Sperino, ‘that of all the women who entered five months ago into the Syphilicome, and whom I syphilised to the highest degree, not only have none hitherto been affected with constitutional symptoms, but the health of each of them has gradually improved.’
1871. Brit. & For. Med.-Chirurg. Rev., XLVII. 357. Most or all of the European races have already to some extent arrived at the syphilised diathesis.
1873. J. E. Morgan, Univ. Oars, 83. Alcoholized, syphilized, tainted with scrofula and other constitutional diseases, they become a feeble sickly race.
Hence Syphilization.
1854. H. Lee (title), Six lectures on syphilitic infection and syphilisation.
1872. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg. (1878), I. 93. Syphilisation originated in 1844 through some experiments of M. Auzias Turenne upon animals to inoculate them with syphilis.
