Pasteurism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pasteurism \Pas*teur"ism\, n. [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.
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     2. Pasteurization.
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