¡Salvad a los niños!: los primeros pasos de la vacunación antivariólica en España (1799-1805)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2004.v56.i1.70Keywords:
introduction and diffusion of Jenner’s vaccine in Spain, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, Academies of Medicine of Madrid and Barcelona, Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga, printing books on vaccine, smallpoxAbstract
This paper shows the introduction and evolution of the Jenner’s vaccine in Spain between 1799 —date of publication of the first book propicious to the vaccine— and 1805, in which year was promulgated a decree in order to establish wards vaccination in spanish hospitals. Academies of Medicine —basically, Madrid and Barcelona— Physicians, surgeons, middle-classes and priests were responsibles of the large diffusion of Jenner’s vaccine in this country, but not the political authorities. Finally, some malicious people are studied as a exponent of the chaotic confussion of this first steps.
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