pasteurism

/ ˈpæstəˌrɪzəm; -stjə-; ˈpɑː- /

noun

1. 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. a similar method of treating patients with other viral infections by the serial injection of progressively more virulent suspensions of the causative virus

Example Sentences

Your readers who may be interested in the bursting of this huge medical bubble of Pasteurism will do well to procure the book just published in Paris, ‘M. Pasteur et la Rage’ by M. Zutand, editor of the Journal de Medecine.

From Project Gutenberg