"Las declaraciones de esencia" del siglo XVIII

Surgical-legal declarations were often called «declaraciones de esencia» in lawsuits and witness statements in 18th century Spain. These were medical certifications, in which surgeons and blood-letters dictated to a notary a detailed description of the wounds observed in the victim of an aggression....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Calderón Campos, Miguel|||0000-0002-0656-3643
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:197085
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/197085
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anatomical lexicon
18th century
Expert medical assessments
Surgeons and bloodletting surgeons
Léxico anatómico
Siglo XVIII
Informes médicos
Cirujanos y sangradores
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Sumario:Surgical-legal declarations were often called «declaraciones de esencia» in lawsuits and witness statements in 18th century Spain. These were medical certifications, in which surgeons and blood-letters dictated to a notary a detailed description of the wounds observed in the victim of an aggression. This is a highly interesting textual genre for studying the medical lexicon used in day-to-day therapeutic practice, because it gathers both vernacular vocabulary and technical medical and anatomic terminology used at the time. The article closes with the transcription of seven declarations drawn up by surgeons and blood-letters in the Kingdom of Granada, selected from among the thirty-seven that form our study corpus.