Francisco Javier Muñiz
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Francisco Javier Muñiz
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| Born |
21 December 1795 San Isidro, Argentina |
| Died | 8 April 1871 (aged 75) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Cause of death | Yellow fever |
| Resting place |
Cementerio de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina 34°35′15.07″S 58°23′36.74″W / 34.5875194°S 58.3935389°W |
| Known for | Indigenous vaccine, physician |
Francisco Javier Muñiz (21 December 1795 – 8 April 1871) was an Argentine colonel, legislator, and medical doctor. He treated patients and died during the Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1871. He was considered the first important naturalist from Argentina.
Francisco Javier Muñiz was born in San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina on 21 December 1795.
He studied at the Instituto Médico Militar (Military Medical Institute) beginning in 1814. The institute was founded by Dr. Cosme Argerich to train surgeons for the army. Muñiz graduated as a doctor in 1821 He transferred to the University of Buenos Aires and completed his surgical education in 1824. Muñiz obtained his doctorate in 1844; his dissertation was about the vaccination of indigenous peoples against smallpox. This work made him notable among European scientists. His dissertation followed the article, "A Case of Extensive Scabby Ulcerations, Cured by Vaccination" that he wrote and was published in the London Medical and Surgical Journal in 1833.
Muñiz, upon becoming a doctor in 1821, worked as a military doctor under Juan Lavalle at Carmen de Patagones during the campaign to secure land from indigenous people. He began to study the customs of native people at this time. In 1824 he was transferred to the fort at Chascomús, and began his study of paleontology. General Carlos María de Alvear ordered that he accompany Lavalle and his troops during the 1826 war with Brazil. He was promoted to Army Surgeon Major that year and transferred to Luján in 1828 to be a physician to police and military troops.
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