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Comment on the article “With regard to the bicentennial of the independence of Colombia: Reading practices of Antonio Nariño and the development of a presumably effective vaccine against smallpox.
Biomedica
July 2021
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
For the American colonies, smallpox implied a process that dramatically destabilized their sociodemographic dynamics, which explains why scientific development took place around the causative virus. Each book about smallpox in Nariño’s library was a tool in the fight against smallpox undertaken by the founding father. After reviewing the article “About the bicentennial of the independence of Colombia: The reading practices of Antonio Nariño and the development of a vaccine that is presumably effective against smallpox” (1), I set myself to study Antonio Nariño’s medical knowledge further.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[On the vaccination before and after Jenner].
Rev Invest Clin
June 2011
Institute Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, México, DF.
The expression "inoculation" of smallpox was first employed by doctor Emanuel Timone, native of the Greek island of Chios and graduated from the Universities of Padua and Oxford. This method was largely employed in the XVIII century. Nevertheless, in 1798, the English physician Edward Jenner published the results of his observartions and his own experience with "vaccination", i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Smallpox immunization in 19th century Brazil: inoculation, variolization, vaccine, and revaccination].
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
March 2004
Pesquisadora da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz.
A product of the fear stirred by variola and the need to avoid contagion and spread of the disease, smallpox immunization has been a longstanding practice around the world, applied in different forms in different societies. Three methods have been used in Brazil-'variolization', Jennerian vaccination, and animal vaccination- prompting profound discord within the national medical community. The article endeavors to identify the main points of these debates, as found in the Gazeta Médica da Bahia and the Gazeta Médica do Rio de Janeiro, periodicals of note at the time and important spaces where those wielding medical knowledge and power sought legitimacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Variola. An old Rumanian method of preventing the disease - variolization. Current success of medical science in vaccination].
Viata Med Rev Inf Prof Stiint Cadrelor Medii Sanit
December 1977
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