In January of 1803, the sixteen-year-old Félicité-Adelaïde Kina (née Quimard) traveled from Paris to Pontarlier to protest the imprisonment of […]
Sex, Death, and Atole at the Royal Indian Hospital
Mexico City, 18th Century For the wounded, diseased, and ailing of Mexico City, just about anything was better than the […]
“The Sickness”: Schooling, Separation, and Sociality in Southern Guyana
As soon as I began my fieldwork in Guyana in July of 2014, I started to hear hushed discussions and […]
Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in the Literature of French Slavery
“Enslaved women and their children enter the archives in little more than fragments.”1 In George Sand’s 1832 idealist novel, Indiana, […]
How To Cook and Cure: Early Modern Recetas
Recipes can quickly transport us to particular times and places. A glance at this vintage Jell-O recipe calls to mind […]
Public Theater and Health Care in the Early Modern Spanish World
In May of 1646, don Duarte Fernando Álvarez de Toledo Portugal, the Viceroy of the Kingdom of Valencia, wrote a […]
Lizards and the Idea of Mexico
In the summer of 1782, Don Juan de Luna, a respected elder citizen of the City of Mexico, nearly choked […]
New Medical Tourism on St. Kitts
The late William Halford of Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine spent his life developing what Hollywood director Agustín Fernández […]
Dying to Heal: Women and Syphilis in Colonial Lima, Peru
In the early modern world, syphilis victims suffered through four stages of disease over a ten- to thirty-year time span. […]
Mary Seacole: Disease and Care of the Wounded, from Jamaica to the Crimea
While Florence Nightingale is legendary in the history of nursing because of her foundational role in the creation of Western […]
