Illustrating medical treatment in colonial Latin American Painting

This talk discusses the visual representation of Indigenous forms of medical treatment in manuscript and print culture after the fall of Tenochtitlan through the first years of the eighteenth century. By focusing on this subset of illustrations drawn and printed in the Americas as well as materials published in Europe from information gleaned by travellers returning from the region, Pérez Marín traces the role visual culture played in supporting, but also in contesting, competing narratives about the scientific value of non-European forms of knowledge.