Title: Epidemias de matlazahuatl, tabardillo y tifo en Nueva España y México
Description: Wide ranging studies on illness and contagion in Mexican history. Focuses on three types of epidemics: idiosyncratic and highly lethal plague of matlazahuatl that devastated indigenous population during 16th-19th centuries, typhus, and typhoid fever. Authors document and analyze demographic impact of these epidemics in various localities and time periods. Edition limited to 250 copies.
Subjects: Epidemics, Congresses, History, Public health, Mortality, Adulthood
Places: Mexico, New Spain
Time periods: Spanish colony, 1540-1810