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In the Relación de Zapotitlán, the author writes that the Indians of "these towns" often get pasmo, a "dangerous disease" that comes because "there are torrential downpours here and, as the land is hot, [this causes] the pores to open, and if a remedy is not applied right away, fever comes, and later the pasmo."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The climate in Citlaltomagua is hot which intensifies the chill; the Indians do not understand this danger so that when "they bathe, they are chilled and many die of pasmo without understanding the pasmo."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Contemporaries called these illnesses by a variety of names: romadizo, catarro, tos, tos antiqua, pasmo, hinchazones en la garganta, and asma.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Náhuatl: Uto-Aztecan language spoken by native Mexicans who, in preconquest era, inhabited the central Valley of Mexico and points southeast, as far as Guatemala. neyolmelahualiztli: Nahuas 'rite of confession, or "straightening one's heart," a practice that restored internal equilibrium. ololiuhqui: various hallucinogenic plants, among them Rivea corymbosa. partera: midwife. pasmo: respiratory illness. peste: pestilence. pintura de castas: colonial-era paintings showing different racial mixes of people. plethora: in humoral medicine, the condition of too much blood, resulting in an imbalance of the humors.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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JOO Vemos com pasmo, parte alguma vemos O todo unido, apanbaõ nossos olhos:
Poetica de Horatio, e o Ensaio sobre a critica de Alexandre Pope : em portuguez 1812
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Se se adianta mais, com pasmo admira Novas scenas distantes sem limite Que a sciencia levanta, e vai motranuo.
Poetica de Horatio, e o Ensaio sobre a critica de Alexandre Pope : em portuguez 1812
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pozytywnie's diary pozytywnie's Diaryland Diary b.r.a.k. pasmo uniesien, wysokich tonow vs katarynkowa melodia. czy to nie odmiana egoizmu?
- pozytywnie 2007
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