De la traducción libre a la manipulación. La versión española de José Alsinet del Traité des affections vaporeuses des deux sexes, de Pierre Pomme

Abstract

The affections vaporeuses were described as the nerve fibre irritation in the upper and lower abdomen, ascending to the brain. An imbalance of the four bodily fluids derived into various humour diseases, which widely spread among the higher classes during the 18th century. Such was the impact that numerous physicians attempted to find out the aetiology of the diseases in order to provide an effective treatment. Traité des affections vaporeuses des deux sexes (1763) by Pomme is a compilation of the renowned physician’s methods illustrated with examples. In 1776, the royal physician José Alsinet rendered Pomme’s Traité into Spanish. The current paper focuses on comparing the original work by Pomme with this Spanish version in order to describe the translation techniques employed by Alsinet.