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Abstract
For the American colonies, smallpox implied a process that dramatically destabilized their sociodemographic dynamics, which explains why scientific development took place around the causative virus. Each book about smallpox in Nariño’s library was a tool in the fight against smallpox undertaken by the founding father. After reviewing the article “About the bicentennial of the independence of Colombia: The reading practices of Antonio Nariño and the development of a vaccine that is presumably effective against smallpox” (1), I set myself to study Antonio Nariño’s medical knowledge further. Through the approach to the works that Nariño used to educate himself on smallpox and the development of a biographical sketch of each of them, I analyzed the process of variolization in the Kingdom of Nueva Granada and the need to manufacture a vaccine locally.Entities:
Keywords: Smallpox; variola virus; smallpox vaccine; immunization; Vaccinia virus; epidemics
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Year: 2021 PMID: 34669276 PMCID: PMC8580099 DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.5723
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomedica ISSN: 0120-4157 Impact factor: 0.935