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Pasteurism

Pas-teur′ism

,
Noun.
[Fr.
Pasteur
, a French scientist.]
1.
A method of treatment, devised by
Pasteur
, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
2.
Pasteurization.