1. "PRE-COLUMBIAN MOULAGES". HUACOS, MUMMIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTROVERSY OVER PRECOLUMBIAN DISEASES, 1894-1910.
- Author
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Farro M and Podgorny I
- Subjects
- History, 19th Century, Leprosy history, Leprosy microbiology, Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous etiology, Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous history, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic etiology, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic history, Mummies pathology, Peru, Syphilis history, Syphilis microbiology, Archaeology history, Mummies history, Photography history
- Abstract
By the late nineteenth century an international controversy arose referred to the probable existence of certain diseases such as leprosy, syphilis and lupus in pre-Columbian America. Led by the American physician Albert Sidney Ashmead (1850-1911), it brought together scholars from Europe and the Americas. In this context, certain types of Peruvian archaeological pottery and "mummies", along with series of photographs illustrating the effects of these diseases in contemporary patients, met a prominent role as comparative evidence. In this article we analyze how this type of collections were used as evidence in the debates about pathologies of the past, an issue that from a historical standpoint have received considerably little attention.
- Published
- 2015