Jaume Ferran i Clua

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Jaume Ferran i Clua (1885)

Jaume Ferran i Clua (born February 1, 1851 in Corbera d'Ebre , Tarragona , † November 22, 1929 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish doctor and bacteriologist.

The son of a village doctor completed his schooling in Tarragona and his medical degree at the University of Barcelona . In 1884 the Real Academia de Medicina awarded his memorandum Memoria sobre el parasitismo bacteriano and the city council of Barcelona sent him to Marseilles to study the cholera epidemic . In 1885, during the epidemic in Valencia, Ferrán carried out mass vaccinations with the cholera vaccine developed by im . His approach was initially controversial among contemporaries, but later the opinion prevailed that his action, regardless of some initial problems with the live vaccine, should be seen as a positive pioneering act.

Monument to Jaume Ferran in Madrid.

literature

  • Joseph Patrick Byrne (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues . Volume 1 (A-M), Greenwood, 2008, ISBN 978-0-313-34101-4 , p. 111.
  • Ubaldo Trujillano: Ferrán, su obra sanitaria . Madrid 1945.
  • Gregorio Marañón: La pasión sobre Ferrán . In: La medicina y los médicos . Madrid 1962, pp. 270-272.
  • Pilar Faus Sevilla: El cólera de 1885 en Valencia y la vacunación Ferrán . In: Medicina y Sociedad en la España del s. XIX . Madrid 1964, pp. 285-486.
  • Juan José FERNÁNDEZ SANZ, "1885: El año de la vacunación Ferrán. Trasfondo político, médico, socio-demográfico y económico de una epidemia". Fundación Ramón Areces. Madrid. 1990.

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SURNAME Ferran i Clua, Jaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferrán, Jaime (Spanish spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish doctor and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Corbera d'Ebre , Tarragona
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1929
Place of death Barcelona