Abstract

LOZANO, Alejandra et al. De curandis hominum morbis: An 18th century medical prescription for measles and smallpox in the Nuevo Reino de Granada. Biomed. [online]. 2020, vol.40, n.3, pp.427-437.  Epub June 30, 2020. ISSN 0120-4157.  https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.4995.

A collection of more than one hundred medical recipes from the late 18th century was donated by Presbyter Cipriano Rodríguez Santa María, institutional eponym of the collection at the Historical Archive “Octavio Arizmendi Posada” of the library of the Universidad de La Sabana in Colombia. These texts represent an important historical and medical legacy and they constitute an important basis for understanding the colonial and traditional therapeutics related to various diseases. In this article, we describe one of these recipes for the treatment of smallpox and measles as a contribution to the history of medicine in Colombia.

Keywords : History of medicine; measles; smallpox; medical records; natural history; prescriptions; medicine, traditional.

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