pujamiento

Contemporary sources, both Spanish and indigenous, failed to call the disease by any name, neither tabardillo — the Spanish name for typhus — nor matlazáhuatl. 43 Mendieta, for example, wrote that both epidemics were due to "pujamiento de sangre," or "full bloodiness," but that the illness of 1576 was also tabardillo. 44 One of the most striking symptoms recorded for both epidemics was bleeding from the nose.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008