pasteurism

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pasteurism [ˈpæstəˌrɪzəm -stjə- ˈpɑː-]

n Med

1. (Medicine) a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies

2. (Medicine) a similar method of treating patients with other viral infections by the serial injection of progressively more virulent suspensions of the causative virus Also called Pasteur treatment

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pasteurize			In addition, the handbooks of hygiene turned out by physicians of the Seine-et-Oise and used in the schools in the second half of the century may have helped inculcate views on health and disease more compatible with those of the medical profession; and starting in the 1880s, the successes of Pasteurism enhanced the popular prestige of medicine as a whole. Health Care in the Parisian Countryside: 1800-1914 by Ramsey, Matthew / Journal of Social History			Paste eel paste up paste-up pasteboard pasted pastedown pastel pastel-colored pastelike pastelist pastellist paster pastern Pastern joint Pasternak Pasteur Pasteur effect Pasteur Louis Pasteur treatment Pasteur's fluid pasteurellosis Pasteurian pasteurisation pasteurise pasteurised pasteurism pasteurization pasteurize pasteurized pasteurized milk pasteurizer pasticcio pastiche pasticheur pasties Pastil pastille pastime pastina Pastinaca Pastinaca sativa pastiness pasting pastis pastitsio pastness Pasto pastor Pastor roseus Pastor sturnus Pastorage			Pasteurella volantium Pasteurella volantium Pasteurellaceae Pasteurellaceae infections Pasteurellales pasteurellosis pasteurellosis pasteurellosis Pasteurellosis, pneumonic Pasteurellosis, pneumonic Pasteurellosis, pneumonic Pasteuriaceae Pasteurian Pasteurian Pasteurian pasteurisation pasteurisation pasteurisation pasteurise pasteurise pasteurise pasteurised pasteurised pasteurised pasteuriser pasteuriser pasteurises pasteurises pasteurising pasteurising pasteurism pasteurization pasteurization pasteurization pasteurize pasteurize pasteurize pasteurized pasteurized pasteurized Pasteurized Cheese Pasteurized Human Milk pasteurized milk pasteurized milk pasteurized milk Pasteurized Milk Ordinance Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) Pasteurized Orange Juice pasteurizer pasteurizer pasteurizer pasteurizes pasteurizes pasteurizing pasteurizing pasteurizing PASTF Pastia sign Pastia's lines PASTIC pasticci

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