Added on May 17, 2018 Medicina/Medicine 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 […]
Added on April 12, 2018 Medicina/Medicine 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 […]
Added on March 29, 2018 Medicina/Medicine 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. […]