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Balmis, Francisco Xavier de
Francisco Javier de Balmis
Francisco Javier de Balmis
(2 December 175312 February 1819) was a Spanish physician best known for leading
an 1803 expedition to Spanish America and the Philippines
to
vaccinate
populations against
smallpox
. His expedition is considered the first international vaccination campaign in history and one of the most important events in the history of medicine. It inspired recent vaccination efforts such as that of
Carlos Canseco
, president of
Rotary International
, to start the worldwide program
PolioPlus
to eradicate
polio
.
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Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-Espana : especies de agave y de begonia, para la curacion del vicio venereo y es...
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Retrato político del emperador de los franceses, su conducta y la de sus generales en España, y la lealdad y valor de los españoles por su soberano Fernando VII /
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Tratado histórico y práctico de la vacuna : que contiene en compendio el orígen y los resultados de las observaciones y experimentos sobre la vacuna, con un exámen imparcial de sus...
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Moreau de la Sarthe, J. L. (Jacques Louis), 1771-1826
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