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v Contents List of Tables / v List of Illustrations / vi Acknowledgments / vii  : Introduction and Setting /  : The Yucatecan Sources /   : Portraits of the Curers /   : Acquiring Curing Skills /   : Exploring the Spectrum of Curing Specialties: Common Practices /   : Common Treatments and Traditional Concepts of Disease and Its Cause /   : Relation to Colonial Sources /   : Conclusion /  Illustrations /   : Plant Catalog /   : Plants with Uses Similar to Roys () /  Glossary /  References Cited /  Index of Plants by Families /  Index /  List of Tables  : Common Treatments and Uses /   : Comparison of Common Names and Uses of Plants with Similar Scientific Binomials in Both My Collection and in Roys’ Ethno-Botany () /   : Twelve Plants Identified to Genus Only in My Collection, Compared with Similar Species in Roys (1931) /   : Plants with the Same or Similar Common Names as in Roys (), but with Differing Identifications /   : Comparison of Thirty-two Plants with Similar Common Names and Uses in My Collection and the Second Volume of the Kaua Manuscript /   : All Similar Common Names of Plants in Both the Second Volume of the Kaua Manuscript and in My Collection /  ...

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