Rerefons lingüístic i mèdic d'un text sobre l'epidèmia del 1678 a Oriola (i 2: Rerefons mèdic)

Abstract

This paper is the study of a text, from a medical standpoint, that contains an inquiry into the illnesses that afflicted Oriola during 1678, finally making it necessary to declare a state of emergency in the city, and thus completes our contribution to the 2012 issue of Estudis Romànics (vol. 34), where wemade a linguistic analysis of thismanuscript. In the first part of the paper, we explain the medical concepts in the document, which involves an examination of the pathology mentioned in the text in accordance with the paradigm of clinical practice prevailing in the 17th century. The work is concluded with a glossary that lists the medical terms as they appear in the original text, together with their correct spelling according to the rules established by the Institut dEstudis Catalans, along with their meanings based on the medical beliefs existing at the time they were written.