Barrera-Vázquez A

Language: Spanish
References: 3
Page: 253-261
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ABSTRACT

The sources for the study of native medicine in Yucatan. can be classified into the following categories: 1) The treatises written by the mayas natives themselves (a) about empirical medicine, (b) about magical medicine. 2) The records written by the Spaniards, especially by the religious men and the settlers, during the spanish rule. 3) Mayan dictionnaries, most of which were made by monks during the colonial period. 4) The treatises written in Spanish by Spanish-speaking people in recent times, using native and foreign research materials (a) popular or (b) scientific. 5) Scientific studies on the flora of the peninsular, with reference to its medical use by the natives. 6) Works written specifically about the use of the yucatecan flora in medicine. 7) The native magical medicine by word of mouth (hmnes, quack doctors). 8) The popular domestic use of herbs and other empirical remediestoday. In this study, all these sources for study of native medicine in Yucatan, Mexico were analysed.

REFERENCES

1. de Landa, D. Relaciones de las Cosas de Yucatán. Mérida; 1938.

2. Roys R L. The Ethno-botany of the Maya. New Orleans: University of Tulane; 1931.

3. Tozzer AM. A Maya Grammar. Cambridge; University Press; 1921.