Eugenio Francisco Javier de Santa Cruz Espejo y Aldaz, Ecuadorian physician, philosopher and author (Quito February 1747 – Quito 27 December 1795)

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In Reflexiones acerca de um metodo para preservar los pueblos de las viruelas (1785), anticipated  the pathogenic role of microbes and proclaimed the causes of decomposition and putrefaction in organic compounds by direct influence  from certain microorganisms