Hygiene and public health are issues that concern not only medicine, but also politics. It is known that since the discovery of the smallpox vaccine is known that hygiene is necessary to prevent contagion. With the advent of the nineteenth century, it started translating French books with this subject. Bartolomé José Gallardo (1800) and Antonio Ballano (1803) translate the work of Jean Baptiste Pressavin, Luis María Mejía (1801) will transfer the work of Etienne Tourtelle, Juan de Rivera y Céspedes (1801) is responsible for the work of François-Emmanuel Foderé and Joaquín Serrano (1803) translates the work of Louis Etienne Geoffroy.  Keywords: hygiene; preventive medicine; public Health; translation into Spanish; French publications.... [Llegir més ...]