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Maya Medical and Botanical Texts, [between 1875 and 1900].

[between 1875 and 1900].

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Medical-Botanical manuscript containing 324 prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Each recipe/prescription is numbered (in a modern hand) in black ink preceding the heading (name of the disease), for example "46. Bobote kaak." Diseases are grouped by type, for example f. 9-10 are devoted to different types of "kaak" "Viruela (smallpox)."
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Part of Mesoamerican Manuscripts
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C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 13)
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Mayan languages
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Materia medica, Vegetable—Mexico—19th century
Medicinal plants—Mexico—19th century
Mayas—Medicine
Maya language—Texts
Indigenous Studies
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