Cultura de los Cuidados (May 2017)
A monograph of Manuel Martín Salazar on tuberculosis (Cadiz, 1887)
Abstract
In the present article we study the monograph on tuberculosis by Manuel Martín Salazar published in Cadiz in 1887. Besides the prologue which was written by Benito Alcina Rancé, the mentioned monograph presents specific sections on the etiology of tuberculosis infection, heredity, vaccination, disinfection, food and climate, as well as sections dedicated to social hygiene and tuberculosis in the army. This study of Martin Salazar has not received the attention it deserves, especially considering the high incidence of the disease in the Spain of the “Restoration” and that the preventive proposals were made considering the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus by Robert Koch.
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