Conflictos y negociaciones en las expediciones de Balmis

Cosme, Alba Morales; Pastrana, Patricia Aceves

doi:10.22201/iih.24486922e.1997.017.3457

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“…Yet, unlike his previous experiences in Puerto Rico and Nueva Granada, Balmis managed to find 26 new children in Mexico, who would be added to the human chain. 23 The record is not clear as to where these children came from, but one may conjecture that they came from an orphanage in Mexico City, just as the original children that had boarded the expedition in Spain. Nevertheless, it is a fact that some of those 26 children were given to Balmis by their parents, who in turn received money as compensation.…”

Section: The Voyagementioning

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“…In this work, Balmis incorporated some of the knowledge that he had gathered from local shamans in his expedition travels throughout Mexico. 6 His tenure in the Spanish colonies and his treatises gave Balmis a scholarly reputation, and once he returned to Spain in 1795, he was introduced to the court of King Carlos IV, to serve as part of the medical staff.…”

Section: Early Years In Balmis' Lifementioning

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A great inspiration for today's vaccination efforts: Biographical sketch of Francisco Xavier Balmis (1753–1819)

Andrade

2021

J Med Biogr

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The management of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic will require huge worldwide vaccination efforts. In this endeavour, healthcare workers face the twofold challenge of reaching remote areas, and persuading people to take the vaccine shots. As it happens, this is nothing new in the history of medicine. Health workers can take inspiration from Francisco Xavier Balmis, a Spanish physician of the 19th century who realised the importance of Jenner's vaccine against smallpox, and led a big successful expedition to administer the vaccines in the Spanish colonial possessions of the Western hemisphere and Asia. This article presents a biographical sketch of Balmis, focusing on his expedition.

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Section: The Voyagementioning

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Section: Early Years In Balmis' Lifementioning

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A great inspiration for today's vaccination efforts: Biographical sketch of Francisco Xavier Balmis (1753–1819)

Andrade

2021

J Med Biogr

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The World's First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813

Mark¹,

Rigau‐Pérez²

2009

bhm

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Smallpox produced the death of up to thirty percent of those infected, so Jenner's preventive method spread quickly. The Spanish government designed and supported a ten-year effort to carry smallpox vaccine to its American and Asian territories in a chain of arm-to-arm vaccination of children. An expedition directed by Doctor Francisco Xavier de Balmis sailed from Corunna in November 1803, stopping in the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Balmis led a subexpedition to Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines; his assistants returned to Mexico in 1807, while Balmis took vaccine to China and returned to Spain (and again to Mexico, 1810-13). Vice-director José Salvany and his staff took vaccine to present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chilean Patagonia. The Spanish Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition shows the first attempts to solve questions still important for the introduction of new immunizations--professionalization in public health, technology transfer, protection of research subjects, and evaluation of vaccine efficacy, safety, and cost.

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Francisco Xavier Balmis y las Juntas de Vacuna, un ejemplo pionero para implementar la vacunación

Tuells¹,

Martín²

2011

Salud pública Méx

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The first organised global immunization campaign was undertaken in America and the Philippines by the 'Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine' (1803-1810). The work of Balmis as director of the Expedition and Salvany, his Assistant Director, not only included vaccinating children but also the development of an organised model for its application. The model was based on a network of centres created to protect and transport the vaccine fluids in good condition until they reached their vaccination sites and how to conduct a census of vaccinated people. In order to improve vaccine acceptability, local health workers were incorporated and the press was used to disseminate news. The strategy developed served as an antecedent that, two hundred years later, is unquestionably similar to health planning models such as Pineault and Daveluy, used in modern vaccination campaigns.

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Conflictos y negociaciones en las expediciones de Balmis

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A great inspiration for today's vaccination efforts: Biographical sketch of Francisco Xavier Balmis (1753–1819)

A great inspiration for today's vaccination efforts: Biographical sketch of Francisco Xavier Balmis (1753–1819)

The World's First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813

Francisco Xavier Balmis y las Juntas de Vacuna, un ejemplo pionero para implementar la vacunación

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