Note 825 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.
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Acosta adds that the ashes of divers poisonous insects were mixed with the teopatli composition, which benumbed the part to which it was applied. 'Aplicado por via de emplasto amortigua las carnes esto solo por si, quanto mas con tanto genero de ponçoñas, y como les amortiguaua el dolor, pareciales efecto de sanidad, y de virtud diuina.' Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 370-1. For details of medical practice see Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., lib. x., pp. 85-105, 109, tom. xi., pp. 212, 236-86, tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 214-15; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. cxli., ccxiii.; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., pp. 100, 139; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 274, 550, 558; Oviedo, Hist. Ind., tom. iii., p. 306; Peter Martyr, dec. v., tom. ii-iii.; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. x., cap. xxi., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xvii., dec. iv., lib. ix., cap. viii.; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 77, 212-16; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 189, tom. iii., pp. 638-40, tom. iv., p. 355.