The war against epidemics in colonial Guatemala,1519-1821 /

Using colonial tax and census records, scholars think the indigenous population dropped at least 90% in the first 160 years after the European conquest. Mismanagement, drought, famine, flood, earthquakes, and even volcanic eruptions all had their victims but the chief cause of death were none of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feldman, Lawrence H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Raleigh, NC : Boson Books, Ã1999.
Temas:
Epidemics > Guatemala > History.
Communicable diseases > Guatemala > History.
Communicable diseases > Treatment > Guatemala > History.
Maladies infectieuses > Guatemala > Histoire.
Maladies infectieuses > Traitement > Guatemala > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
Communicable diseases.
Communicable diseases > Treatment.
Epidemics.
Guatemala.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Preliminaries; Table Of Contents; Preface; Maps; The Stench of the Dead; Of the Epidemic Called Cocoliztli and the Image of Death Called San Pascual; Native drugs for the healing of Measles and Smallpox; Procedure used in the Curing of Measles and Smallpox; Reports on a New Disease, 1786-1787; Correspondence on the Discovery, Prevention, and Halting of Outbreaks of Typhus, 1797-1798; Correspondance on the Discovery, Prevention, and Halting of an Outbreak of Smallpox; The Vaccination Crusade Against Smallpox, 1798-1804.

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