| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 these. In colonial Guatemala the pests, the epidemics, were the greatest killers. There are many books on medicine in colonial Guatemala. What makes this work different is that it is neither a broad history of the colonial era nor restricted to a single ethnic group or profession. Instead, it seeks to |
| Notes |
Title from e-book title screen (viewed September 22, 2005) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- Guatemala -- History
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Communicable diseases -- Guatemala -- History
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Communicable diseases -- Treatment -- Guatemala -- History
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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Communicable diseases
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Communicable diseases -- Treatment
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Epidemics
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Guatemala
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1886420602 |
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9781886420601 |
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