Francisco Xavier Balmis (1753-1819) as member of the Royal Medical Academy of Madrid

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  • José Tuells Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia, Universidad de Alicante. Alicante. España. / Cátedra Balmis de Vacunología UA-ASISA. Alicante. España.

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Francisco Xavier Balmis, Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition, Royal Medical Academy of Madrid

Abstract

Perhaps it is little known that the Director of the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition (1803-1813), Francisco Xavier Balmis (1753-1819) was part of the Royal Medical Academy of Madrid. He had obtained his appointment as Corresponding Academic in 1789, after having sent to the Academy a manuscript with a dissertation on leprosy . Balmis, an unrepentant traveler, was then in Mexico, a city where he worked as Chief Surgeon of the Royal Hospital of the Love of God and where in 1786 he had obtained the title of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mexico. Years later, in 1798, he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine from the University of Toledo, after which he began a new trip to the American continent, from which he would not return until two years later. There is no documentary evidence that Balmis received a bachelor's degree or doctor of medicine throughout his professional career.

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2022-08-05

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Tuells J. Francisco Xavier Balmis (1753-1819) as member of the Royal Medical Academy of Madrid: e202208061. Rev Esp Salud Pública [Internet]. 2022 Aug. 5 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];96:4 páginas. Available from: https://ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/resp/article/view/349

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