2024-01-06 06:00:00
View of A Corua from San Diego drawn by Enrique Louard in 1842. MUNICIPAL ARCHIVE OF A CORUA
Tuells and González Guitín bring to light the enthusiastic reception of the publication that announced the philanthropic expedition of the vaccine, recently published in facsimile by the Academy of Medicine
06 ene 2024 . Updated at 05:00 a.m.
And because they were children, they were in charge of the Rector of the House of Foundlings of La Corua, who on this one, as on previous voyages, took care of their cleanliness with the greatest care. With this brief quote on the second page of the Supplement to the Madrid Gazeta On October 14, 1806, the participation of Isabel Zendal in the Real Expedicin Filantrpica de la Vacuna, which had set sail from A Corua three years before, suffraged by la Corona, aboard the corbeta Mara Pita.
He Supplementa compendium of geography, narrative pulse and propaganda in the service of Charles IV, reports on the return to Madrid of the chamber surgeon Xavier Balmis After the journey through the Overseas Territories that she completed with her team, Nurse Zendal—the only woman on board—and the 21 children from the inclusive that transmitted arm to arm the smallpox vaccineconsolation of humanity, in the most enormous prophylactic work of world medicine known.
Historical and practical treatise on vaccination, by JL Moreau de la Sarthe, translated by Balmis and published in 1803, which served as a manual in the vaccination boards. CARLOS GONZLEZ GUITIN COLLECTION
Balmis tried (…) to extend the beneficence of the King and the glory of his august name to the last confines of Asia, and reached the vast archipelago of the Visayas islands, whose kings, who lived in perpetual war with us, have deposed arms, admired at the generosity of an enemy who brought them health and life when they were most afflicted with a devastating smallpox epidemic, describes the news, which continues with the health and political advance: Those who reigned in the Portuguese colonies and in the empire of China when Balmis arrived in Macao and Canton, managing to introduce in both parts fresh and in all its activity the fluid (…), an undertaking that the English had not been able to achieve on several occasions. who tried it, taking portions of pus on ships of their India Company, which arrived inert.
He will return to the English, and to Balmis in Saint Helena, where he convinces them, as everywhere else, by dint of exhortations and perseverance, to adopt the prodigious antidote that they had despised for more than eight years, despite being a discovery. of his nation.
Edward Jenner vaccinating a child in 1884, Hillemarcher’s reading reproduced on the cover of the book Isabel Zendal, the mother of all vaccines (Tefilo Ed.), by Antonio López Mario. WELLCOME COLLECTION
The story of the scientific feat was received with enthusiasm in America and Europe, as the research of the professor at the University of Alicante has brought to light. Jos Tuells and the historian corus Carlos Gonzalez Guitin. He was the best literary and scientific ambassador of the expedition. Four pages were enough to publicize a pioneering feat, the first organized international vaccination campaign in the history of public health, González Guitín points out about the Supplementrecently published in facsmilin Spanish and English versions by the medical academies of Galicia and Spain.
Months after coming to light in the royal printing press, the text reached the hands of the discoverer of the vaccine, Edward Jennerwhich promotes one let the english give it, in a format similar to the original, included in the 2023 edition. The vaccine children burst into circles and scientific literature throughout Europe, in the British Parliament and the royal courts. Almost simultaneously, the prestigious magazine British Library In Geneva, he translated the text into French, the language of cultural intermediation at the time. Thanks to the publication in English, the expedition was remembered throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, says Carlos González Guitian, who brings up the recent recognition of the Unesco by declaring Memory of the World the documentation on the epic that is preserved in the General Archive of the Indies.
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