Open AccessDe curandis hominum morbis: una receta médica del siglo XVIII para el sarampión y las viruelas en el Nuevo Reino de Granada
Author(s) -
Alejandra Lozano,
Júlio César Martinez,
Jorge Uribe,
Alberto Gómez,
Sara Jardim Lima Figuerêdo,
Ignacio Briceño
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biomédica/biomedica
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.26
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2590-7379
pISSN - 0120-4157
DOI - 10.7705/biomedica.4995
Subject(s) - humanities , art
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.