salted, participial adjective

Forms:
Also saulted.
Origin:
From salt.
Of animals: immune to a disease after having survived an attack either contracted by normal contagion or artificially induced in a mild form.
1871 J. Mackenzie Ten Yrs N. of Orange River 261A horse which has recovered from this sickness never gets it again, and, according to the colonial phrase, he is now a ‘salted horse’. The term is used in certificates and other documents, and is taken to mean a horse which has recovered from the distemper.
1882 J. Nixon Among Boers 239A saulted animal has always a more or less mangy appearance.
1905 D. Hutcheon in Flint & Gilchrist Science in S. Afr. 345One of his young animals developed a fatal attack of Biliary Fever after an innoculation with blood from a salted horse.
1979 T. Gutsche There Was a Man 108‘Salted’ oxen from which to produce the serum were rare.
immune to a disease after having survived an attack either contracted by normal contagion or artificially induced in a mild form.
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