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The Best Attractions In Santiago de Chiquitos

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Dr. Santiago María del Granado y Navarro Calderón, 1st Count of Cotoca , was a Spanish nobleman and physician, who at the beginning of the 19th century traveled through some of the most remote regions of South America where epidemics were raging, to inoculate Native Americans with the recently discovered vaccine and prevent the spread of smallpox. His humanitarian efforts paralleled Dr. Francisco Xavier Balmis and Dr. Josep Salvany i Lleopart's 19th-century Spanish expedition to deliver smallpox vaccine to the New World. The idealistic spirit of Dr. del Granado's vaccine mission is a sensational and heartwarming page from the history of Spanish medic...
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