History 2501E Chapter : History 2501 course pack readings.docx
23 Apr 2012
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Use of human waste as fertilizer, privies along all the roads, managed disposal service. Disposal of the dead via cremation or buried. Focus on native health remedies: botanical gardens, collection of medicinal plants. Hippocratic theory of disease causation: classified illness and its treatment into a logical framework. State"s concern with disease control represents preventative aspect of public health. Rigid code of morality: severe penalties for adultery, reduce spread of venereal infection. Personal hygiene also important: bathing considered a cure. State of health deteriorated following spanish conquest (small pox, typhus etc), higher mortality rates and population decline. Bernal diaz= last survivor of conquerors of mexico. Wrote about the overthrow of a great empire by a company of adventurers. He thought success came from miraculous intervention of god and the saints who wished new. Spain to be added to the realm of christ and emperor charles v. Large force allowed sufficient entry to mexico (1520)
