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In qualli ticitl


the good physician: she gives them potions, purges them, gives them medicine...She anoints them; she rubs, she massages them.

In aocmo meia chichioa

The nursing woman who no longer produces milk: she is to drink an infusion of roots, pulverized with a stone. Then one is to wash her breasts with saltpeter. Or she is to drink the infusion many times when she comes from the sweat bath.


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