Word: serapia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragedy of Mrs. Gomez. One day when 30 pupils at the local school, encouraged by their parents, refused to be vaccinated, Dr. Glusker knew he had to do something. What he did was to write a little story in Spanish, The Tragedy of Mrs. Gomez and Her Darling Daughter Serapia...
...When little Serapia was only three years old, she caught the disease called smallpox. . . . The poor child died in her mother's arms." Soon the grieving Mrs. Gomez was visited by a little bird that turned out to be Serapia. Said Serapia "I went to Heaven. Saint Peter told me that God was very worried because nobody should die of smallpox. He asked me if we had a doctor in the village. I told him that we had none. But not very far away in Tingo Maria there was a new hospital and they had a doctor...
...remember,' said God, 'that it was not finished when you were sick. All right, dear child. There is no reason why anyone should die of smallpox. I am inspiring the doctors to vaccinate everybody. Once vaccinated, they will be protected from smallpox.' " Serapia explained that immunization for diphtheria and scarlet fever could also save children's lives and that it was her mission to tell other children's mothers about it. The fable concludes: "Soon there will be no more disease. Because everybody will be vaccinated...
...Serapia did the trick: after reading her sad story, the children clamored to be vaccinated. Dr. Glusker, a gleam in his eye, went on to write a whole series of stories called Fabulas para Pedro (Fables for Pedro), a little boy who rarely passes up a chance to plug Dr. Glusker's hospital...
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