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Ancient Remedies: Hueseros Provide Alternative Healing Methods Ancient Remedies: Hueseros Provide Alternative Healing Methods The  sobadores  (bonesetters) are an integral and deeply rooted part of Mexican and Latin American culture and identity. However, despite the cultural ties, not everyone has gone to a huesero, and those that have don’t always recommend them. Hueseros carry out a “special” type of healing, a cheaper alternative to conventional medicine. For many Mexicans, they fulfill the role of “general practitioner” for a lower price, while maintaining questionable metho...

sobadores  (bonesetters) are an integral and deeply rooted part of Mexican and Latin American culture and identity. However, despite the cultural ties, not everyone has gone to a huesero, and those that have don’t always recommend them. Hueseros carry out a “special” type of healing, a cheaper alternative to conventional medicine. For many Mexicans, they fulfill the role of “general practitioner” for a lower price, while maintaining questionable methods. The gift of healing In almost every city in Latin America, you can find a hueserowho claims to fix pains in joints, ovaries, wai...

by Eric Felten Print this article Encyclopaedia Britannica, Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary, and Cram’s Popular Atlas of the World were having trouble keeping up. It was the war, you see. Cram’s atlas (was there ever a less mellifluous brand name?) is new to my shelves, a manifestation of my mania for books that attempt to organize all that was known about the world at a given moment. But in 1941, the facts to be known about the world were alarmingly fluid. Cram’s knew well they would be out of date before the printing plates were even inked. The