Enfermería - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:31:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Enfermería - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Isabel Zendal https://historylab.es/isabel-zendal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=isabel-zendal Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/isabel-zendal/ Simple and short video on Isabel Zendal and the Balmis Smallpox Vaccine Expedition 1803-1806

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]]> 2.12 minute video produced by the Mexican Society of Public Health on the figure of Isabel Zendal Gómez in the context of the Royal Philanthropic Smallpox Vaccine Expedition (1803). It is commonly known as the Balmis Expedition because it was led by Dr Francisco Javier Balmis y Berenguer. Twenty-two foundlings and orphans travelled with the medical team, led by Isabel Zendal, the rector of the Casa de Expósitos of the Hospital de la Caridad in A Coruña. They, aged between 3 and 9 years, were the ones who carried the vaccine in their bodies and so it could be preserved in good condition until its arrival in America. With the aim of being accessible to the general public, the narration is particularly clear in its presentation, with visual resources very suitable for primary and secondary school pupils. Isabel Zendal was recognised by the World Health Organisation as the first nurse in history on an international mission.

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