Brief description of Mexican medicine

Authors

  • Luz Elena Rivera Hernández Guadalajara University, Mexico

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33064/hh.vi10.1287

Keywords:

Medicine, mexica, religion, magic, empirical knowledge

Abstract

Within the Mexica culture, medicine had a magical-religious character, there was a division according to the medical functions performed and a hierarchy. Physicians were called ticitl, and were considered healers, magicians and priests. The Mexica believed that the health of a man was given thanks to the balance between cold and heat and when this balance was broken, illness appeared. This work deals with three aspects in which the medical arts were divided: religion, magic and empirical knowledge. The knowledge was passed orally, inherited from father to son, and was later captured in the codices.

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Author Biography

Luz Elena Rivera Hernández, Guadalajara University, Mexico

Second semester student of the Bachelor's Degree in History at the Guadalajara University.

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Published

2014-07-01

How to Cite

Rivera Hernández, Luz Elena. 2014. “Brief Description of Mexican Medicine”. Horizonte Histórico - Semester Journal for Students of the UAA’s Bachelor’s Degree in History, no. 10 (July):46-53. https://doi.org/10.33064/hh.vi10.1287.

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No. 10 (2014): Prelude to the meeting of two worlds

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