''Jaime Ferrán y Clúa'' (

Corbera d'Ebre Corbera d'Ebre is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of la Terra Alta in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of the 12 municipalities comprising the wine-growing region of the Spanish '' Denominación de Origen'' classification of the Spanish wine Terr ...

, 1851 –

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1929) was a

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bacteriologist A bacteriologist is a microbiologist, or similarly trained professional, in bacteriology -- a subdivision of microbiology that studies bacteria, typically pathogenic ones. Bacteriologists are interested in studying and learning about bacteria, ...

and sanitarian , contemporary of

Robert Koch Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the bacteri ...

, and said by his fellows to have made some of the discoveries attributed to Koch. As early as 1885, he wrote on immunization against

cholera Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium '' Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days. Vomiting an ...

. In 1893, his work on this subject was translated into

with the title ''L'Inoculation préventive contre le Cholera''.

Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, ...

is another disease in which Ferran was always deeply interested. Some of his ideas on the transmission and virulence of tuberculosis are revolutionary. He died in 1929 and was buried in

Montjuïc Cemetery Montjuïc Cemetery, known in Catalan as Cementiri del Sud-oest or Cementiri de Montjuïc, is located on one of the rocky slopes of Montjuïc hill in Barcelona. History It was opened on 17 March 1883 by the city of Barcelona as its main cemeter ...

Bibliography

* U. TRUJILLANO, ''Ferrán, su obra sanitaria'', Madrid 1945; * G. MARAÑÓN, ''La pasión sobre Ferrán'', en ''La medicina y los médicos'', Madrid 1962, 270-272; * P. CAUS SEVILLA, ''El cólera de 1885 en Valencia y la vacunación Ferrán'', en ''Medicina y Sociedad en la España del s. XIX'', Madrid 1964, 285-486. * * FERNÁNDEZ SANZ, Juan José "1885: El año de la vacunación Ferrán. Trasfondo político, médico, socio-demográfico y económico de una epidemia". Fundación Ramón Areces. Madrid. 1990.

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About Jaume Ferran i Clua birth
1851 births 1929 deaths People from Terra Alta (comarca) Scientists from Catalonia Spanish biologists Spanish microbiologists {{spain-scientist-stub