De curandis hominum morbis: a household prescription for smallpox and measles in the Nuevo Reino de Granada

An anonymous eighteenth-century manuscript from the Nuevo Reino de Granada setting out, day by day, what to do for a patient with smallpox or measles. Its author bleeds and cups in the first days, then argues that the cure is mostly water — "qué cosa más común que curarse con solo agua" — and cites a 1753 outbreak in which he says he prescribed no more than this and one or two people died. The modern editors publish it and decline to vouch for it.