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Pedro Arias de Benavides devoted almost his entire Secretos de cirugía to the diagnosis and treatment of morbo gálico, the French disease, which was the other favored appellation of the time.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

In order to hold privileges, public offices, or enter the university one had to prove their blood purity. ihiyotl: animistic force residing in the liver; linked to one's passions. matlazáhuatl: epidemic illness, usually associated with typhus. morbo gálico: the French Disease, or syphilis.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Their claim was backed up by others, including Columbus's son, Ferdinand, and a Spanish physician named Ruy Díaz de Isla who claimed that he had treated some of the sailors for an unknown disease whose symptoms later turned out to be those of morbo gálico.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

For one, they are a superb source for contemporary descriptions of the disorders of the day; within these pages we find lengthy descriptions of dolor de costado, flaqueza del estomago, dolor de ijada, morbo gálico, obstrucción del hígado, mal de madre, apostemas, and tabardillo.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

I think it is a sign that the values of too many are empty, shallow, untranscending and morbo-seeking; such lack of awareness!

Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context" 2009

Or that those comparing him with Hitler have, by any rational measure, already lost the argument? morbo

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Quidam conquestus est mihi de hoc morbo, et deprecatus est ut ego illum curarem; ego quaesivi ab eo quid sentiret; respondit, semper imaginor et cogito de Deo et angelis, &c. et ita demersus sum hac imaginatione, ut nec edam nec dormiam, nec negotiis, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Plerique hoc morbo medicina nihil profecisse visi sunt, et sibi demissi invaluerunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Raro quis diuturno morbo laborat, qui non sit melancholicus, Mercurialis de affect. capitis lib. 1 c. 10 de

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Aliis apertio haec in hoc morbo videtur utilissima; mihi non admodum probatur, quia sanguinem tenuem attrahit et crassum relinquit.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007