THE JUANINO HOSPITAL OF NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LOS DOLORES DE TEZCOCO: EPIDEMICS IN AN INDIGENOUS CITY(1737, 1784AND 1813)

Abstract

The present work studies and analyzes six books of the sick and two books of the
sick of the Hospital Juanino de Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados of the city
of Tezcoco elaborated in theXVIII century; but it focuses its attention on three
important epidemics that struck the local population in 1737 (Matlazahuatl),
1784 (Influenza) and 1813 (Typhus). These manuscripts have remained in
historiographic oblivion and their analysis allows us to know the ages, origin
and “sickness” that were treated in a hospital during the eighteenth century.