swinepox

/swahyn-poks/US // ˈswaɪnˌpɒks //UK // (ˈswaɪnˌpɒks) //

扫把星,扫地机器人,扫荡,扫地僧

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a variety of chicken pox.
- : Veterinary Pathology. a mild pox disease of swine, caused by a virus related to that of cowpox, characterized by the appearance of pustules in the skin, especially of the abdomen.

It was in 1789 that he inoculated his child, aged eighteen months, with matter from the so-called swinepox of man.
Sometime after Jenner had used the swinepox matter, he began to talk among his medical neighbours of using cowpox matter.
He inoculated his eldest son with the matter of swinepox and produced a disease similar to a very mild smallpox.
In the course of his researches he was led to conclude that swinepox, as well as cowpox, was only a variety of smallpox.