Author: Fernández, Angel Pulido y [1852-1932] [ Pulido, Angel ]
Title: Precursor, representativo y mártir : Estado actual de la experimentación mundial sobre la doctrina antituberculosa ..,.
Description: Madrid, Inst. Nacional de Sordomudos, 1921. Later boards.. 22x16cm, 496,(19) pp. Later binder's blind boards with original cover wrappers bound-in. Binding is in VG condition.. 19pp photoplates.. Rubberstamps to half-title & title-page. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Precursor, representativo y mártir : estado actual de la experimentación mundial sobre la doctrina antituberculosa del Doctor Ferrán : Ensayo en Palma de Mallorca". Concerning the bacterial vaccines of Dr. Jaime Ferrán y Clua [1852-1929] ["the modern cholera vaccine traces its history to the crude live version that Dr. Jaime Ferrán y Clua prepared and tested in 1884 during an epidemic in Tortosa, Spain...Ferrán had observed that guinea pigs surviving injections of living cholera organisms became resistant to developing disease from further injections of cholera material. Borrowing from Pasteur's techniques, Ferrán developed a vaccine that immunized the animals...But faced with the urgency of the epidemic, Ferrán apparnetly did not feel that he had time to make further experiments. That year 50,000 people received three injections of his cholera vaccine....the results were disastrous..." -Lawrence K. Altman " Who Goes First", p. 120].

Keywords: History of Medicine, Bacteriology, Bacterial Vaccines, Tuberculosis, Vaccine, Vaccination, Spain, Spanish Medical, Jaime Ferrán y Clua