RESUMO

In 1763 Pedro de Horta was requested by the prioress of the convent of San Gerónimo in Puebla de los Angeles to draw up a report to establish whether the epidemic of queer turns, violent shaking or epilepsy which affected the novices was caused by the Devil or was due to natural causes. Pedro de Horta, a doctor qualified in Mexico, methodically and thoroughly prepared an extensive monographic treatise on the illness which included all that was known at the time. The report showed the fierce debates provoked by the subject of epilepsy in the eighteenth century regarding whether it was of natural or supernatural origin. It also contained detailed accounts of the episodes, their causes and treatment. The Spaniard Pedro de Horta should be justly recognized as the first American epileptologist.

Assuntos

Epilepsia/história , Literatura Moderna/história , Adulto , Catolicismo/história , Criança , Transtornos da Consciência/diagnóstico , Transtornos da Consciência/etiologia , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Epilepsia/diagnóstico , Epilepsia/etiologia , Epilepsia/terapia , Grécia , História do Século XVI , História do Século XVII , História do Século XVIII , História Antiga , História Medieval , História Moderna 1601- , Humanos , Histeria/diagnóstico , México/epidemiologia , Modelos Psicológicos , Religião e Medicina , Convulsões/diagnóstico , Convulsões/etiologia , Bruxaria/história

Assuntos

Epilepsia/história , História do Século XVIII , Humanos , México