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Pestilence and headcolds: encountering illness in colonial Mexico

Sherry Fields 2011 © Columbia University Press
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  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE Pestilence and Headcolds
    • [Intro]
    • Ancient Mesoamerica
    • Colonial Mexico
      • [Intro]
      • “La mayor lástima del mundo”—Epidemic Illness
      • “Quebrantada de salud”:—Endemic Illness
      • Achaques y indisposiciones: Everyday Ailments
  • CHAPTER TWO Doctors, Bleeders, and Virgins
    • [Intro]
    • Healers in Mesoamerica
    • Healers in New Spain
      • [Intro]
      • Licensed Practitioners
        • Physicians
        • Surgeons
        • Pharmacists
        • Midwives
      • Unlicensed Practitioners
        • [Intro]
        • Curanderos
      • The Church and Divine Healers
  • CHAPTER THREE The Whole of Our Flesh
    • [Intro]
    • A Slippery Earth
    • Picturing the Body
    • Deities and Dwellers of Dangerous Places
    • Finding Equilibrium
  • CHAPTER FOUR Managing the Humors
    • [Intro]
    • European Origins: Humoralism
    • Hazardous Environments and Risky Behavior
    • Invasive Airs
    • Miasma
    • “Mal orden y mala regla”—Lifestyle
  • CHAPTER FIVE Encountering Illness
    • [Intro]
    • Sickness Culture
    • Miraculous Medicine
    • By Way of Conclusion
  • Notes
    • Introduction
    • CHAPTER ONE Pestilence and Headcolds
    • CHAPTER TWO Doctors, Bleeders, and Virgins
    • CHAPTER THREE The Whole of Our Flesh
    • CHAPTER FOUR Managing the Humors
    • CHAPTER FIVE Encountering Illness
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Source: Codex Magliabechiano, fol. 77r. ms. Banco Rari 232 (ex Magl. XIII, 3), Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy. By permission of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali della Repubblica Italiana.

Source: Codex Magliabechiano, fol. 77r. ms. Banco Rari 232 (ex Magl. XIII, 3), Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy. By permission of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali della Repubblica Italiana.

The Temazcal, or Mesoamerican Steambath Source: Codex Magliabechiano, fol. 77r. ms. Banco Rari 232 (ex Magl. XIII, 3), Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy. By permission of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali della Repubblica Italiana.

Source: Anonymous, 1750. Private collection, Mexico City.

Source: Anonymous, 1750. Private collection, Mexico City.

Ex-voto to San Miguel. Source: Anonymous, 1750. Private collection, Mexico City.

Source: Gloucester smallpox album, 1896.

Source: Gloucester smallpox album, 1896.

Photograph of smallpox victim, with and without disease, 1896. Source: Gloucester smallpox album, 1896.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 10, fol. 20. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 10, fol. 20. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.

The Physician Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 10, fol. 20. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.

Source: Anonymous, n/d. Collection of INAH – Hidalgo, Colonial Museum (10-213313), Actopan, Mexico. By permission of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.

Source: Anonymous, n/d. Collection of INAH – Hidalgo, Colonial Museum (10-213313), Actopan, Mexico. By permission of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.

Ex-voto to the Virgin of Zapopan. Source: Anonymous, n/d. Collection of INAH – Hidalgo, Colonial Museum (10-213313), Actopan, Mexico. By permission of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 10, fol. 38. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 10, fol. 38. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.

The Cook Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 10, fol. 38. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.

Source: Ex-voto to the Virgin of Loreto. Anonymous. Mexico 1787. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico

In Mexico City of July 21 of 1787, the priest Br. D. Nicolas Calvo fell gravely ill from malignant dysentery, and because some of the tissue of the last intestine had separated, a sure and certain death was feared by the doctors attending him; but having sincerely implored to the Santissima Virgin, he regained his health perfectly, with much admiration from the doctors, so much for the brevity of his recovery, as for the circumstances of it. And in recognition of this benevolence he offers the Santissima Virgin this retablo, in memory of it.

Ex-voto to the Virgin of Loreto In Mexico City of July 21 of 1787, the priest Br. D. Nicolas Calvo fell gravely ill from malignant dysentery, and because some of the tissue of the last intestine had separated, a sure and certain death was feared by the doctors attending him; but having sincerely implored to the Santissima Virgin, he regained his health perfectly, with much admiration from the doctors, so much for the brevity of his recovery, as for the circumstances of it. And in recognition of this benevolence he offers the Santissima Virgin this retablo, in memory of it.

Source: Anonymous, 1789. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Source: Anonymous, 1789. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Ex-voto to the Virgin of Soledad. Source: Anonymous, 1789. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Source: Anonymous, 1774. Collection of María and Gonzalo Méndez. Zapata, Mexico D.F.

Source: Anonymous, 1774. Collection of María and Gonzalo Méndez. Zapata, Mexico D.F.

Ex-voto to Our Lady of Tulantongo. Source: Anonymous, 1774. Collection of María and Gonzalo Méndez. Zapata, Mexico D.F.

Source: Anonymous, 1785. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Source: Anonymous, 1785. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Ex-voto to the Virgin of Soledad. Source: Anonymous, 1785. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Source: Ex-voto to San Miguel. Anonymous, 1783. Private collection, Mexico City, Mexico.

In the month of June, 1783, Doña Jasinta Cahacho was suffering, without hope of human remedy. She prayed to San Miguel for his intervention and drank water from his well … the moment she drank, she was cured, thanks to God forever.

Ex-voto to San Miguel. In the month of June, 1783, Doña Jasinta Cahacho was suffering, without hope of human remedy. She prayed to San Miguel for his intervention and drank water from his well … the moment she drank, she was cured, thanks to God forever.

Source: Codex Vaticanus Latinus, 3738, pl. 73. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Italy.

Source: Codex Vaticanus Latinus, 3738, pl. 73. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Italy.

Mesoamerican bodies were directly linked to the various cosmic forces. Here different body parts are coupled with the signs representing the twenty days of the ritual calendar. Source: Codex Vaticanus Latinus, 3738, pl. 73. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Italy.

Source: Anonymous, 1746. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Source: Anonymous, 1746. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Ex-voto to the Virgin of Soledad. Source: Anonymous, 1746. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photograph by author.

Source: Codex Telleriano-Remensis, fol.46v. Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris.

Source: Codex Telleriano-Remensis, fol.46v. Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris.

Epidemic of 1544–45 Source: Codex Telleriano-Remensis, fol.46v. Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 12, fol. 54. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 12, fol. 54. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.

Nahuas infected with smallpox. Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. III, Book 12, fol. 54. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.

Source: Private collection, Mexico.

Source: Private collection, Mexico.

Anonymous ex-voto, 18th-century, Mexico Source: Private collection, Mexico.

Source: Ex-voto, anonymous, 1799. Collection of Roberto Rochín Naya, Mexico City, Mexico. Photograph by Roberto Rochín Naya.

Source: Ex-voto, anonymous, 1799. Collection of Roberto Rochín Naya, Mexico City, Mexico. Photograph by Roberto Rochín Naya.

Ex-voto Source: Ex-voto, anonymous, 1799. Collection of Roberto Rochín Naya, Mexico City, Mexico. Photograph by Roberto Rochín Naya.

Source: Ex-voto to Our Lady of Sorrows and to San Sebastian. Anonymous, Mexico 1761. Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City.

On December 2, 1761, Doña Luisana Grande Acxotlan of Cholula was sick in bed with smallpox, very dangerously so. With great devotion, she called upon Nuesta Señora de los Dolares and on San Sebastián along with the holy San Miguelito, and later she was cured of the disease, and for these marvels and for giving her health and life, she had this painted in thanks.

Ex-voto to Our Lady of Sorrows and to San Sebastian On December 2, 1761, Doña Luisana Grande Acxotlan of Cholula was sick in bed with smallpox, very dangerously so. With great devotion, she called upon Nuesta Señora de los Dolares and on San Sebastián along with the holy San Miguelito, and later she was cured of the disease, and for these marvels and for giving her health and life, she had this painted in thanks.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. II, Book 6, fol. 129. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.

Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. II, Book 6, fol. 129. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.

The Midwife Source: Florentine Codex, Vol. II, Book 6, fol. 129. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy.

Source: Anonymous, 1743. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by author.

Source: Anonymous, 1743. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by author.

Ex-voto to the Virgin of Soledad. Source: Anonymous, 1743. Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by author.

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