Aztec furniture was pretty minimalist...
Just how were Aztec weapons used in practice?
Is the chacmool anything to do with the ballgame?
Aztec noble versus commoner
Cannibalism was a very European thing!
Virgin of Guadalupe and Tonantzin - are they the same?
See what we did on our first visit to a school!
The story of the woman who interpreted for Cortes
To be moral was to follow the example of your ancestors
See Mexican singing stones being played...
Scientists try to reconstruct an ancient codex
The stories of Malinche and Pocahontas
A Mexican codex in Oxford was thought to be Egyptian!
Studying the surface of codices is a bit like s the surface of the moon
Trainee runners had to shin up the 113 steps of the Templo Mayor
No-one surpassed the Mixtecs in the applied arts
A recipe for Aztec chocolate
In Aztec poetry warriors die - to return again and again
Get your kids to dye cochineal!
What did the ancient Maya wear?
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Introduction
Aztec advances (8): tartar removal NEW
Aztec advances (7): sweat lodge
Aztec advances (6): anaesthetics
Aztec advances (5): treating bone fractures
Aztec advances (4): treating arthritic pain
‘Obsidian medicine’
Aztec advances (3): diet: blue-green algae
Aztec advances (2): dentistry
Aztec advances (1): anatomical knowledge
Health Profiles: Aztec Warrior v Spanish Conquistador
Mexican herbal medicines
Herbal Medicine, Aztec Style
Aztec Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Part 1
Where Aztecs Meet Scientists
Plants used for reproductive health among the modern-day Nahua
Las enfermedades mentales son enfermedades del corazón
UK/further resources on Aztec medicine
Aztec/Mexica traditional steam bath or ‘temazcal’

UK/further resources on Aztec medicine

Here are one or two little known sources of further information on Aztec/Mexica health and medicine, both UK-based and international; in English and Spanish...

Network for Indigenous Mexican Studies at Sheffield University
Network of practitioners of traditional Mexica healers in the UK
Read ‘An Aztec Herbal: The Classic Codex of 1552’ by William Gates, online
‘Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico’
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