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Las Experiencias de José Celestino Mutis Sobre El Uso del Guaco Como Antiofídico Artículo académico uri icon

Abstracto

  • This article intends to explore the germinal process to validate and «legitimate» an indigenous knowledge towards a therapeutic aim. It tells about a current traditional healing practice: the cure for the bite of snake, by inoculating the juice of a plant called guaco. Various representatives of the cultural elite in the New-Grenade participate in this process, they reveal the enligthened reason in the vice monarchy of the New-Grenade at the end of the 18th century.

fecha de publicación

  • 2003-1-1