Abstract

DOMINGUEZ HERNANDEZ, M. A. et al. Notes for the Lexical Study of the Link between Sugar Production and Medicine in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries in Cuba. UH [online]. 2019, n.287, pp.227-246. ISSN 0253-9276.

Abstract: The linkage between sugar cane, its industry and its derivatives with diseases, therapeutic procedures, hygiene and health in the Cuban colonial period is attested, through the revision of the vocabulary obtained from several documents, and its comparison with lexicographical sources, for determine their level of specialization and chronic dating, which at the same time gives some clues about the development of medicine in Cuba.

Keywords : Technical Scientific Vocabulary; Medicine; Specialized Lexicon; Colonial Period; Cuba.

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