Quatro libros de la naturaleza (Mexico, 1615)

The Mexican imprint of 1615 in which a Dominican lay brother put Doctor Francisco Hernández's Latin survey of New Spain's plants and animals into Spanish, for people living on estancias and in mining camps where there was neither physician nor apothecary. Its chapter headings are Nahuatl; its drugs come from the Indian markets; and its compiler states on the page that he worked from corrupt copies and had lost the hearing he needed to learn the language.