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- Title
Recetarios: sus autores y lectores en el Perú colonial.
- Authors
WARREN, ADAM
- Abstract
This paper asks what medical texts known as recetarios, which circulated in colonial Peru, can tell us about the ways ordinary colonial subjects thought about medicine, healing, and the body in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Recetarios were manuals with detailed instructions for concocting homemade medical treatments, and they were designed to be accessible to those lacking formal knowledge of medicine. Focusing on several texts attributed to the surgeon Martín Delgar and another text of unknown authorship entitled «El médico verdadero», the first half of the paper traces the intellectual roots of the indigenous Andean and Spanish medical knowledge the works contain. It uncovers links between these popular medical texts and the earlier writings of Bernabé Cobo and Benito Jerónimo Feijóo. The paper then examines how the content of these recetarios related to popular practices, and how ordinary people may have employed such works and other guides to healing.
- Subjects
PERU; POPULAR medicine; DRUG guides; LATIN American traditional medicine; HEALTH self-care; PERUVIAN history, to 1820; COBO, Bernabe; FEIJOO y Montenegro, Benito Jeronimo, 1676-1764; DELGAR, Martin; HANDBOOKS, vade-mecums, etc.
- Publication
Histórica (02528894), 2009, Vol 33, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0252-8894
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18800/historica.200901.002