tabardillo

For one, they are a superb source for contemporary descriptions of the disorders of the day; within these pages we find lengthy descriptions of dolor de costado, flaqueza del estomago, dolor de ijada, morbo gálico, obstrucción del hígado, mal de madre, apostemas, and tabardillo.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Contemporary sources, both Spanish and indigenous, failed to call the disease by any name, neither tabardillo — the Spanish name for typhus — nor matlazáhuatl. 43 Mendieta, for example, wrote that both epidemics were due to "pujamiento de sangre," or "full bloodiness," but that the illness of 1576 was also tabardillo. 44 One of the most striking symptoms recorded for both epidemics was bleeding from the nose.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Another emigrant appeals to relatives in Pamplona that they send his nephew: "eight months ago I lost my wife to tabardillo, and so now I am an orphan, without wife, son or daughter."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

-- Sambon is a panacea among the Filipinos; its virtues are prodigious according to the ignorant natives who wear the leaves in the hat or the "salakod" (rain hat), to prevent "tabardillo" ( "burning fever"; tabardillo pintado = spotted fever).

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891