[Maya Medical and Botanical Texts]. [between 1875 and 1900]

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[Maya Medical and Botanical Texts]. [between 1875 and 1900]

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Medical-Botanical manuscript containing 324 prescriptions/recipes for the use of plants in medical remedies and treatments. Each recipe/prescription is numbered (in a modern hand) in black ink preceding the heading (name of the disease), for example "46. Bobote kaak." Diseases are grouped by type, for example f. 9-10 are devoted to different types of "kaak" "Viruela (smallpox)."

55 leaves (leaves 2-59, 74, 93-94), bound : paper ; 21.5 x 15.5 cm.

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Gates, William, 1863-1940

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