The temazcalli in New Spain's printed medicine: an indigenous sweat bath recorded as therapy in 1615 and proposed for the thermometer in 1772

The Nahua vapour bath appears in the printed medicine of New Spain as a step in treatment. The Mexican pharmacopoeia of 1615 records it twice as the close of indigenous protocols - after bone-setting with resin, feathers and splints, and a day after purging in the cure of the mal frances - and a Mexico City weekly of 1772 prints a correspondent who rents two of them out, has seen miracles in them, admits patients sometimes come out worse, and wants a thermometer taken inside.