De curandis hominum morbis: An 18th century medical prescription for measles and smallpox in the Nuevo Reino de Granada

Alejandra Lozano, Julio César Martínez, Jorge Uribe, Alberto Gómez, Sneider Alberto Figueredo, Ignacio Briceño

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Alejandra LozanoGrupo de Genética Humana, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia. biomedica@ins.gov.co.

Julio César MartínezGrupo de Genética Humana, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia. biomedica@ins.gov.co.

Jorge UribeFacultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. biomedica@ins.gov.co.

Alberto GómezInstituto de Genética Humana, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. biomedica@ins.gov.co.

Sneider Alberto FigueredoGrupo de Genética Humana, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia. biomedica@ins.gov.co.

Ignacio BriceñoGrupo de Genética Humana, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia. ignaciobricenob@hotmail.com.

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Abstract

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.

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ColombiaHistory, 18th CenturyHumansMeaslesMedicine, TraditionalPrescriptionsSmallpoxWaterWaterHistory of medicinemeaslesmedical recordsnatural historyprescriptionssmallpoxtraditional

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PMID33030820

DOI10.7705/biomedica.4995

PMCPMC7666863

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