Náhuatl: Uto-Aztecan language spoken by native Mexicans who, in preconquest era, inhabited the central Valley of Mexico and points southeast, as far as Guatemala. neyolmelahualiztli: Nahuas 'rite of confession, or "straightening one's heart," a practice that restored internal equilibrium. ololiuhqui: various hallucinogenic plants, among them Rivea corymbosa. partera: midwife. pasmo: respiratory illness. peste: pestilence. pintura de castas: colonial-era paintings showing different racial mixes of people. plethora: in humoral medicine, the condition of too much blood, resulting in an imbalance of the humors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

Yet his environment is revealed not as the natural paradise lesser writers edit, out of black yearning for a preconquest state of being or white yearning for a pre-industrial one, from the footage of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child Is the Man] Reference

TheEdwards model was augmented and revised by subsequent generations of historians, most notably by John Lloyd and William Stubbs in their work on preconquest Wales, which considered questions of race and political organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

13The horror of this first pestilence comes through in several Nahua chronicles, the best-known of these being the account recorded by Sahagún in the General History of the Things of New Spain, his great encyclopedic enterprise on preconquest Nahua life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

In New Spain, the two major works of this sort, Francisco Hernández's Historia Natural de la Nueva España and Martín de la Cruz's Badianus Codex, stand alongside Fray Bernardino de Sahagun's encyclopedic work on preconquest life as the major sources on Mesoamerican medicine. 4 The shortcomings of these texts as historical records — for example, the way the authors filtered native medicine through their own European medical concepts, or the way in which Sahagún cleansed much of his informants 'information of its supernatural content — have already been discussed extensively by the many scholars who have used them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference