pasteurism

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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