Tragico svcesso, mortifero estrago

Abstract

We are presenting a transcript of a source of late seventeenth century on a pestilential outbreak in the city of Cordoba. The writing of such treaties, by medical professionals tried to advise patients about the necessary measures for prevention and for the healing of this pestilence. This kind of work were one of the most widespread genres of medical-health literature of the period, which falls within the genre of the Regimina Sanitatis, typical discursive expression from the medieval and early modern Dietetic whose purposes are to regulate, prevent and heal the complete life of the individual. His author, Nicholas de Vargas Valenzuela, physician, Professor of Philosophy and Physician of the Inquisition, who served at the Hospital of San Sebastian between 1638 and 1659, tells us about the characteristics that had the epidemic in Cordoba on his work of 1651, Tragico svcesso, mortifero estrago, qve la Ivsticia Diuina obro en la ciudad de Cordoua..., which was dedicated to Fray Pedro de Tapia, Bishop of Córdoba.This type of publication is extremely useful and illustrative for the historian in his task of rebuilding the pestiferous Spanish map of European modernity.