Diseases and infancies in the Buenos Aires of the first decades of the 19th century. Notes for his study

Abstract

In companies as the sea one of the first half of the 19th century, the disease and the death were attacking preferably the weakest and between these the children and girls were the principal victims. In this work we will analyze someramente some pathologies that were affecting the children and girls, but we will concentrate our analysis in one of most been afraid: the smallpox. A disease that destroyed the world up to a few decades ago and in companies as the sea one, I constitute a scourge of such a nature that deserved a particular attention on the part of the governments, of the scientific circles and in general of a company that was afraid of his consequences and was seeking to attenuate his effects. Analyzing these practices it is possible to warn the undeniable predisposition on the part of the sea ones to preserve to his childhood of the suffering and of the death, these, basal attitudes to apprehend as this sea company he was thinking his children and girls, that is to say since they conceived to his infancies