Using the disease to directly infect a person is called variolation, with the intent of resisting the same disease later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Inoculation, hereafter referred to as variolation, was likely practiced in Africa, India, and China long before the 18th century, when it was introduced to Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diamond's Eye View of the World] Reference

As the virus existed possibly as far back as 1000 BCE, and as the first attempts at vaccination called variolation were in the 10th century, to claim that the colonists didn't understand the disease and didn't know what they were doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: LIKE A PHONOGRAPH.] Reference

The practice of variolation was a step in this direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference

The old custom of variolation had not been discarded, and the experience of the Gloucestershire milkmaids had not crystalized into the form of vaccination to be handed down by Jenner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

In 1670, Circassian traders introduced variolation to the Turkish "Ottoman" Empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diamond's Eye View of the World] Reference

These women must also have brought the practice of variolation to the court of the Sublime Porte.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diamond's Eye View of the World] Reference

This was essentially the same method as had been used for variolation in Europe during the latter part of the 18th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Research Blogging - All Topics - English] Reference

Jenner's work on vaccination began in the later 1700s, and drew heavily upon earlier practices of inoculation / variolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diamond's Eye View of the World] Reference

Thus 2-3% of those who took up variolation died, but on the other hand it decreased the death rate of smallpox by 10 times less.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

A few weeks after their arrival in Istanbul, Lady Montague wrote to her friend about the method of variolation used at the Ottoman court.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diamond's Eye View of the World] Reference

It was the continued advocacy of the English aristocrat Lady Mary Wortley Montague that was responsible for the introduction of variolation in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diamond's Eye View of the World] Reference

An early form of vaccination was variolation, originally practised by the Chinese as early as the 10th century, when powdered smallpox scabs were applied to a small cut on the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference