Pestilence and headcolds : encountering illness in colonial Mexico /
Fields, Sherry Lee.
New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2008.
Series statement from jacket.
Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184).
Pestilence and headcolds -- Doctors, bleeders, and virgins -- The whole of our flesh -- Managing the humors -- Encountering illness.
Medicine
Imperialism
Social medicine