''Jaime Ferran i Clua'' (

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 ...

, 1851 –

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

1929) was a Spanish- French bacteriologist and sanitarian , contemporary of Robert Koch, 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 Strain (biology), strains of the Bacteria, bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea last ...

. In 1893, his work on this subject was translated into French with the title ''L'Inoculation préventive contre le Cholera''.

Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

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,

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