Abstract

PERALTA RODRIGUEZ, José Roberto. Eye Diseases and their Treatment in the Novohispanic Population of México City. 16 ^th and 17 ^th Centuries. Secuencia [online]. 2008, n.70, pp.11-44. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i70.1029.

The aim of this árdele was to identify the eye diseases among the Novo-Hispanic population of México City and those responsible for treat-ing them within their social and urban context. Inadequate health conditions created both slight and severe ailments, the latter leading to blind-ness as a result of local and transferred microorganisms, accidents and probably miscegenation. Military men who improvised with therapeutic techniques, surgeons, clerics and European and indigenous doctore treated them in accordance with their level and humoral conception of disease and in approximately 1616, oculists began to be involved. Thus, during the colonial era, a strong link prevailed between doctors and surgeons, although not with the master glazier who produced spectacles for dealing with non-incapacitating visual ailments.

Keywords : Non-incapacitating visual ailments; treatment of ocular ailments; blindness; master glazier; oculist; ocular ailments.