La medicina indígena en la Española y su comercialización (1492-1550)

Authors

  • Esteban Mira Caballos Miembro del grupo de investigación "Andalucía y América: tierra y sociedad" del Depto. de Historia de América de la Universidad de Sevilla

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1997.v49.i2.372

Abstract


In this article the important herbalist knowledge that the native healers or behiques possessed in la Española are pointed out. They concealed their herbalist knowledge as a means to preserve their priviledged social status, on the ather baud, es a rejection to the conquerors. Soon the Spaniards realised the importance that the native herbalist knouledge had as an enterprise and began a profitable trade of liqueur and medicinal plants to the Iberian Peninsula.

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Published

1997-12-30

How to Cite

Mira Caballos, E. (1997). La medicina indígena en la Española y su comercialización (1492-1550). Asclepio, 49(2), 185–198. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1997.v49.i2.372

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