Abstract
The Royal Vaccination Expedition, directed by the physicians Francisco Xavier Balmis and José Salvany, was the most important scientific and medical achievement of the Spanish colonial era. It took place at a time of political restlessness, and its achievements were thus conditioned by each of the cultures into which the vaccine was introduced. As its legacy, the philantropic expedition left the Vaccination Boards, established in the Americas as centers of medical expertise to sustain the expedition´s principal objetive: the battle against the smallpox epidemics in pursuit of public health.
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SUMMARYThe Royal Vaccination Expedition, directed by the physicians Francisco Xavier Balmis and José Salvany, was the most important scientific and medical achievement of the Spanish colonial era.
It took place at a time of political restlessness, and its achievements were conditioned by each of the cultures into which the vaccine was introduced.
En 1803 se inicia una de las gestas médicas más importantes de la historia de medicina española durante el período colonial: La Real Expedición Filantrópica.
Summary
The Royal Vaccination Expedition, directed by the physicians Francisco Xavier Balmis and José Salvany, was the most important scientific and medical achievement of the Spanish colonial era. It took place at a time of political restlessness, and its achievements were conditioned by each of the cultures into which the vaccine was introduced. En 1803 se inicia una de las gestas médicas más importantes de la historia de medicina española durante el período colonial: La Real Expedición Filantrópica. Esta vuelta al mundo que propaga la salud se enmarca dentro del conjunto de las expediciones ilustradas realizadas por España en los territorios americanos a lo largo del siglo XVIII. Mi estudio va a centrarse en el legado dejado a modo de sementera en favor de la sanidad pública
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