The war against epidemics in colonial Guatemala,1519-1821

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1886420602 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781886420601 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource.
Publisher: Raleigh, NC : Boson Books, c1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from e-book title screen (viewed Sept. 22, 2005).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.