Opera medicinalia (Mexico, 1570)

The first medical book printed anywhere in the Americas, from the press of Pedro Ocharte at Mexico in 1570. Its four parts treat the fever the country called tabardete, bleeding in pleurisy, critical days, and the root known as zarzaparrilla. The second is an argument against a named Seville authority, which makes the first medical imprint of the New World a book that disputes the Old.