Hagiography & medicine (II): «Que él sabía más que Dios en la medicina». A suspicion of heresy in the medical practice during the decline of the New Spain’s inquisition ; Hagiografía y medicina (II): «Que él sabía más que Dios en la medicina». Una sospecha de herejía en la práctica médica durante el ocaso de la inquisición de Nueva España

In the General Archive of the Nation of Mexico lies a brief but significant fragment of an inquisitorial process from the end of the 18th century. The accusations signed go against an anonymous professor of medicine, who, supposedly, pronounced a series of irreligious insults that offended the counter-reformist Catholic morality of his time. Without neglecting the integrity of the document, of the five points listed in this summary of crimes, I focus on analyzing numbers three and four, that is, those where certain data and aspects of hagiographic and biblical literature are directly alluded to ( Saint Camilo de Lelis and Saint Raphael the Archangel) and the local Mexican nature (the zanate bird). From the perspective of philology and the history of culture, the purpose of this article is to highlight and analyze that these mentions account for a religious and folkloric narrative that permeated the daily life of various communities of eighteenth-century New Spain society, including doctors. . Thus, based on hagiographic literature, the singularity of these crimes of faith within the tradition of New Spain medical literature is analyzed. For this purpose, I propose the tracing of the aforementioned references through three ways of the materiality of written culture: 1) Institutionalized concluding works to acquire a degree in medicine. 2) Medical Libraries. 3) Treatises written by doctors. It is concluded that, within the insults uttered, the legendary allusions, through the names of their protagonists, were not random and unsupported expressions. On the contrary, what is evoked with the legends of the Archangel Raphael, Saint Camilo de Lelis and the Mexican bird, Zanate, has its own logic: it represents a part of the narratives that were formed from medicine and the search for healing at the end of the eighteenth century in New Spain. ; En el Archivo General de la Nación de México yace un breve pero significativo fragmento de un proceso inquisitorial de finales del siglo xviii. Las imputaciones suscritas van en ...