El léxico de la viruela en la Guatemala del siglo XVIIIalgunas notas sobre la "Instrucción sobre el modo de practicar la inoculación de las viruelas" de José Felipe Flores (Ciudad de Guatemala, 1794)

Resumo

Although 18th-century medical lexicon has been studied in Spain and some American areas like Mexico, in the case of Guatemala this subject has received no attention from scholars. Because of that, this paper aims to provide the first description of lexicon related to smallpox that is used in Instrucción sobre el modo de practicar la inoculación de las viruelas, a treatise published by doctor José Felipe Flores in 1794 in Guatemala City. Thus, the purposes of this analysis are three: a) to list lexical items related to smallpox which appear in the corpus; b) to point out coincidences and divergences in this lexicon that can be discovered between Guatemala and other areas of New Spain such as Mexico City, and c) to discuss new lines of research that contribute to improving our knowledge of the history of the medical lexicon that is used in the old Kingdom of Guatemala.