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eBook, 2006
Current format, eBook, 2006, 1. ed, No Longer Available.
eBook, 2006
Current format, eBook, 2006, 1. ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
While writing her novel, Alma is sidetracked by the story of a much earlier idealist, Francisco Xavier Balmis, who in 1803 undertook the vaccination of the populations of Spain's American colonies against smallpox and who needed living "carriers" of the vaccine so that it could survive the travel time across the ocean. Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story she stumbles upon which involves Isabel, director of La Casa De Expâositos, who selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine in 1803.
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