[Psychiatry in colonial Mexico].

This article describes the knowledges, descriptions and treatments of the mental illnesses by the physicians of the Colonial Mexico (XVI to XIX Centuries). In the first part we can appreciate the spanish ascendancy in the XVI century; in the second one the influence in our country of the Malleus Maleficarum and in the third one the renovation of the Mexican medicine who tries to be part of the universal movement, although in this case, the universe is practically France in the XVIII century and the beginning of the XIX.