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The term inoculate entered medical English through horticultural usage meaning to graft a bud from one plant into another. It derives from Latin in-'in' + oculus 'eye' (and by metaphor, 'bud'). [4] (The term innocuous is unrelated, as it derives from Latin in-'not' + nocuus 'harmful'.)
Inoculation is a theory that explains how attitudes and beliefs can be made more resistant to future challenges. For an inoculation message to be successful, the recipient experiences threat (a recognition that a held attitude or belief is vulnerable to change) and is exposed to and/or engages in refutational processes (preemptive refutation, that is, defenses against potential counterarguments).
Starting in 1881, dried spinal cord material from infected rabbits was given to dogs to inoculate them against rabies. [10] The infected nerve tissue was dried to weaken the virus. [11] Subsequently, in 1885, the vaccine was given to a 9-year-old boy infected with the rabies disease, Joseph Meister, who survived when no one had before. [10]
Variolation was the method of inoculation first used to immunize individuals against smallpox (Variola) with material taken from a patient or a recently variolated individual, in the hope that a mild, but protective, infection would result.
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The man was handed a nine-year prison sentence for treason, possession of an offensive weapon, and making threats to kill. "Places like this will always be a target," added Nash. Show comments