Abstract

GONZALEZ CARDENAS, Daisy M.; REYES GONZALEZ, María Elena; FOMENTAL HIDALGO, Berta  and  GOMEZ DE MOLINA IGLESIAS, Marisel. Variolization and the upcoming of the smallpox vaccine. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1729-519X.

The review of some historical Medicine papers, thesis and other scientific documents, had as an objective, to describe different process of variolization utilised by mankind untill the upcoming of the smallpox vaccine. We consider that variolization was an important incentive in the upcoming of another procedure, harmless and efficacious: vaccination.

Keywords : Variolization; smallpox; Infectious disease; vaccine.