Abstract
FOR MANY YEARS there has existed in the Department of Health and Welfare (Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia) in Mexico City a large and important series of colonial manuscripts.' It is housed at 39 Calle Donceles, within walking distance of the Archivo General de la Nacion, but very few persons have known of its existence. The archives of this Department has never been open to investigators, and the author apparently is the first historian to examine the manuscripts thoroughly. So far as I have been able to ascertain, none of them has ever been cited in any published work. The only other historian who is known to have seen them is R6mulo Velasco Ceballos, but none is cited in any of his numerous publications, mainly on medical history.2 Since Velasco's death in 1948 the archives has remained closed and seemingly forgotten.3
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