Le vaccin de Jenner au Portugal (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)

Abstract

The Jenner vaccine in Portugal (18th-19th centuries) – The discovery of the smallpox vaccine caused very important changes in medications. With this new drug came the preventive medication. In this article the authors make a brief history of the Jenner vaccine in Portugal : the protagonists ; the publications (Preservativo das bexigas (1801), M. J. Henriques de Paiva ; Indagaçaõ sobre as causas, e effeitos das Bexigas da Vacca (1803), João António Monteiro ; Reflexoens, e observaçoens, sobre a pratica da inoculaçaõ da Vaccina (1808), H. J. de Araújo Carneiro) and the institutions (Instituição Vaccinica de l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Lisbonne ; Instituto Vacínico Bourquin e Campos ; Instituto Vacínico Portuense ; Parque Vacinogénico de Lisboa).