Book contents
- War Against Smallpox
- War Against Smallpox
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 A Tale of Two Diseases
- 2 Fire with Fire
- 3 Good Tidings from the Farm
- 4 National Mobilisation
- 5 Vaccine Diaspora
- 6 Vaccine’s Conquest of Napoleonic Europe
- 7 The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe
- 8 Across the Pyrenees
- 9 Romanovs and Vaktsinovs
- 10 Passage through India
- 11 ‘This New Inoculation Is No Sham!’
- 12 A New Pox for the New World
- 13 Oceanic Vaccine
- 14 The World Arm-to-Arm
- Select Bibliography
- Index
12 - A New Pox for the New World
Vaccination in Latin America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2020
- War Against Smallpox
- War Against Smallpox
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 A Tale of Two Diseases
- 2 Fire with Fire
- 3 Good Tidings from the Farm
- 4 National Mobilisation
- 5 Vaccine Diaspora
- 6 Vaccine’s Conquest of Napoleonic Europe
- 7 The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe
- 8 Across the Pyrenees
- 9 Romanovs and Vaktsinovs
- 10 Passage through India
- 11 ‘This New Inoculation Is No Sham!’
- 12 A New Pox for the New World
- 13 Oceanic Vaccine
- 14 The World Arm-to-Arm
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 12 discusses the severity of smallpox in the New World and the use of smallpox inoculation to control smallpox in the West Indies and suppress epidemics in Spanish America. Early attempts to introduce cowpox in Jamaica and elsewhere led to disappointment, but local initiatives began to bear fruit prior to the arrival of the Spanish Royal and Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition in 1804. This well documented expedition, in which children under vaccination were escorted to go arm-to-arm with others along the way, naturally commands centre stage. Projecting an image of professional expertise and imperial benevolence, Dr Balmis and his assistants brought vaccination to Venezuela and helped to set the practice on a firmer organisational footing in Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico. In the meantime, Salvany, his deputy, headed south through Colombia and Peru, vaccinating on an epic scale. Although Lima was already supplied with vaccine from Brazil by way of Buenos Aires, Salvany continued his work in the remote districts of Peru until his death in 1810. His assistant, Grajales, remained in harness in Chile until 1812.
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- War Against SmallpoxEdward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination, pp. 295 - 324Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020