The Nueva Granada pharmacy of the Company of Jesus: a laboratory for the exploration of medical practices in the province of Santafé in the irst half of the XVIIIth century.

This paper is focused on the study of an inventory carried out in the pharmacy belonging to Colegio Máximo de Santafé of the Company of Jesus in 1767. This inventory is intended to recognize medical practices performed by missionaries in the province of Santafé during the irst half of the XVIIIth ce...

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Main Author:	Osorio Oliveros, María Eugenia
Format:	Online
Language:	spa
Published:	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2013
Subjects:	Colegio Máximo pharmacy Jesuit medicine Humanist Galenism American medicinal substances botica Colegio Máximo medicina jesuita galenismo humanista sustancias medicinales americanas
Online Access:	https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_memoria/article/view/1965

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Summary:	This paper is focused on the study of an inventory carried out in the pharmacy belonging to Colegio Máximo de Santafé of the Company of Jesus in 1767. This inventory is intended to recognize medical practices performed by missionaries in the province of Santafé during the irst half of the XVIIIth century. In the same way, importance is given to the exchange of healing knowledge between Jesuits and American natives, which was crucial for the colonial and local establishment of the paradigm of Humanist Galenism.