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Miguel La Grua Talamanca y Branciforte, de los Príncipes de Carini : El Rey nuestro Señor (Dios le guarde) que vela incesantemente sobre el bien de sus fieles, leales y amantes Vasallos de este Reyno ... dignándose comunicarme por conducto del Exmô. Señor D. Eugenio de Llaguno la Real Orden siguiente : "Exmô. Señor. = En la Ciudad de Cuba se ha descubierto un especifico preservativo del mal de siete días ...

Announcement of the discovery in Cuba of a cure for the "disease of seven days", an infection of the umbilical cord of newborns that was one of the principal causes of the island's depopulation, with "Balsamo de Copayba" (copaiba balsam). The King orders the use of this bals...

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Corporate Authors: Spain, Spain. Sovereign (1788-1808 : Charles IV), New Spain. Viceroy (1794-1798 : Branciforte)
Other Authors: Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, Llaguno y Amirola, Eugenio, -1799, Branciforte, Miguel de la Grúa y Talamanca, marqués de, approximately 1755-1812, Negreiros y Soria, José Ignacio, 1769-
Format: Book
Language:Spanish
Published: México : [publisher not identified], 1797.
Subjects:
Copaiba > Therapeutic use > Law and legislation > Early works to 1800.
Umbilical cord > Diseases > Treatment > Early works to 1800.
Newborn infants > Diseases > Treatment > Early works to 1800.
Medicine > Cuba > History > Sources.
Cuba > History > To 1810 > Sources.
Broadsides.

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