Vacunas e iconografía

Abstract

There was some kind of method used in an empiric way that helped to suffer the small pot disease in a milder way long before the English physician E. Jenner were to discover the vaccine. This method also achieved immunity against the disease. The method was not exempt of complications, however. Sometimes these complications were serious enough as to compromise the general acceptance of the method. Besides the smallpox, we do a historic revision of rage, poliomyelitis, typhoid and paratyphoid fever, as well as that of diphtheria and tetanus. We include an iconography regarding these diseases, its vaccines and persons and institutions related to them.Peer reviewe