Respuesta de Ruiz de Luzuriaga a las preocupaciones sobre la preservación de la vacuna en España (1803)

Abstract

In an initial period of some excitement in the spread of smallpox vaccine in Spain (1800-1802), to which were added provaccine physicians and surgeons and the publication of several texts that reinforced its dissemination, was followed by a more thoughtful stage where they raised questions of a technical nature related to the best way of practicing the vaccination. A good practice is supposed to have the necessary means to produce, store and transport the vaccine fluid. Question that had been well identified in view of the preparatory reports of the Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine. Coinciding with the departure of the expedition, among the members of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid raised reasonable doubts on this matter were discussed, receiving the secretary of that institution, Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga, the job of preparing a report that will present the conclusions of this discussion and will dispel the doubts to avoid shortages of the vaccine fluid.