Smallpox immunization in Alta California: an account based on José Estrada's 1821 postscript

Smallpox immunization in Alta California: an account based on José Estrada's 1821 postscript

Smallpox Vaccination California
Smallpox California History
Smallpox
Smallpox Vaccination
California
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On August 28, 1821, José Estrada of Monterey wrote a letter to his friend, José de la Guerra, in Santa Barbara. The letter had a brief postscript which is tantalizing in the limited information it gives. The postscript states:
"The Russian surgeon has brought vaccine and today has vaccinated 54 persons, I being the first."
One cannot readily allow this terse note to

Robert J Moes
Doyce B Nunis
José Estrada
Grant Edward Dahlstrom
Zamorano Club
Roxburghe Club of San Francisco

Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library

Los Angeles, Calif.: Moes

1978

Lisa Crane

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Print book held by Special Collections: https://ccl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/9567661

29, [4] pages: facsimiles, portrait; 22 cm

English; original 1821 letter in Spanish

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Claremont Colleges Library call number: RA644.S6 M64

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