Juan de Esteyneffer, Florilegio medicinal (Mexico, 1712)

A medical handbook printed at Mexico City in 1712 by a Jesuit lay brother from Silesia, written for the mission provinces of Topia, Sinaloa, the Tepehuanes, the Tarahumara, Sonora and California, which had, in its own words, no recourse to any physician or apothecary. It teaches the reader to substitute what is at hand, and prints American drugs under the names the peoples of the north-west used for them - beside a frank statement that the man dispensing them was also the confessor.