Abstract

LOPEZ MARINO, Antonio. Port cities fighting yellow fever (1800-1812). Temperamentvm [online]. 2020, vol.16, e13183.  Epub June 06, 2022. ISSN 1699-6011.

While a Spanish philanthropic expedition is placing the first vaccine known by the Mankind among the population of America and Asia, the Iberian Peninsula is living under yellow fever threat. An epidemic that Medicine fights with the help of sudorifics, enemas, quinine and oil rubs; with plants, vinegar or sulfur smokes and volleyfires; with isolation in huts; with hygiene instructions and sanitation measures for prisons. For the Public Health Policy, the indisputable basement of the battle against the epidemics will be placing in quarantine both, people and goods, without forgetting the royal advice, which is “to implore the help of God, with public prayers”.

Keywords : Yellow fever; Blood tonic remedies; Healthy smokes; Hygiene; Sanitation; Sanitary cordons; Quarantines; Public prayers; The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition.