Maya Medical Manuscripts
Title
Maya Medical Manuscripts
Description
This manuscript contains two nineteenth century transcriptions of medical remedies, with illnesses cross-referenced to plants and various curing recipes, in Maya and Spanish. This is just one of the many holdings that Special Collections has that focus on Latin America.
Identifier
MSS0008
Collection Items
[Maya Medical Manuscripts Transcribed in the Nineteenth Century]
![[Maya Medical Manuscripts Transcribed in the Nineteenth Century]](https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/files/square_thumbnails/35/950/MS0008-SC-Recetario_de_los_Indios-AB.jpg "[Maya Medical Manuscripts Transcribed in the Nineteenth Century]")
This early manuscript serves as a manual for the treatment of a wide variety of ailments. Here, for example is a remedy for an earache (dolor de oído). The suggested mixtures often involve the use of herbs and body parts of a remarkable selection of…