American medicine. Medicine in pre-columbian México

Authors

  • Ramón Madrigal Lomba HOSPITAL PROVINCIAL CLÍNICO QUIRÚRGICO DOCENTE JOSÉ RAMÓN LÓPEZ TABRANE. MATANZAS
  • Jesús Cora Abraham Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Juan Guiteras Gener. Matanzas
  • Ernesto Hernández Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Juan Guiteras Gener. Matanzas

Keywords:

HISTORY OF MEDICINE, HISTORY MEDIEVAL, AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP, INDIGENOUS HEALTH, INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATION, MEXICO

Abstract

We make a brief exposition of the main historical sources to study Medicine in pre-Columbian Mexico and during the first Nem Spain century. We describe the characteristics of the medicine in its over-natural beliefable aspect and its empirical-rational aspect, and also the characteristics of the medical practice, underlining the value of the indigenous medical tradition, the natural richness of the country, and the important contribution to the European medical science, in adition to the importance of the cultural fusion, and mainly medical,of Europe and the New World for modern medicine. We offer considerations on epidemiologic aspects.

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Madrigal Lomba R, Cora Abraham J, Hernández E. American medicine. Medicine in pre-columbian México. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 3 [cited 2025 Feb. 2];30(1):140-6. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/480

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 1 (2008)

Section

ARTÍCULOS HISTÓRICOS

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