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100 richard c. ramer Controversial Medical Practicioner 146. MONRAVÁ E ROCA, António de. Academicas oraçoens phisicoanatomico-medico-cirurgicas, em que practicam os mais eruditos discipulos da nova Academia das Quatro Sciencias, para a comverçam do errado lastimoso povo apolino. Antwerp (i.e., Lisbon?): Officina Plantiniana, 1732. 4°, contemporary speckled sheep (some wear, especially to one corner), spine gilt with floral tooling and fillets in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece richly gilt with floral tooling and gilt letter, textblock edges sprinkled red. Woodcut initials. Woodcut and typographical headpieces. Large woodcut tailpieces. Very small wormtrail in upper outer corner of first three leaves; another minor trail in lower margin of last two leaves; tiny pinpoint wormhole in lower margin of final ten leaves; none of these ever affecting any text. Some leaves lightly browned; a few more heavily so. Overall a very good copy. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of a Franciscan library in upper margin of title-page. Another contemporary ink signature on verso of plate. Engraved bookplate of Freitas Simões. Frontis, (13 ll.), 320 pp. [pp. 57-64 misnumbered 87-94], (16 ll.). $2,800.00 FIRST EDITION. Monravá e Roca was a colorful and controversial figure of eighteenth-century medicine. Born in Pons (Catalonia), he studied in Barcelona, Valencia and Lérida, where he received his degree. After working in Spain for ten years he travelled to Portugal and accepted the chair in anatomy at the Hospital de Todos os Santos, Lisbon. There his merits as well as his defects proved so great that no one could regard him with indifference: some called him a charlatan, a few a scatter-brained genius. In 1732, just before this work appeared, Monravá e Roca lost his position to Bernardo Santucci. He maintained a surgical practice in Lisbon and enjoyed considerable fame in that field. Monravá e Roca also established a school of his own, the Academy of the Four Sciences, at which he taught anatomy, surgery, medicine and natural sciences. Ferreira de Mira states that it was founded in 1739 and was closed by government order two months later. On the title page of this 1732 work, however, Monravá e Roca calls himself “Presidente Fundador da nova Academia das Quatro Sciencias,” and Innocêncio comments that the school continued to draw students until its founder died in 1753. The Academicas oraçoens seem to be essays by students of Monravá e Roca; the eighth oração, for example, is entitled “Phisiologico-medica oraçam VIII sobre tres quimeras dos medicos, que dice Miguel Gonzalves Gliz, discipulo Academico da Nova Academia, Phisico-Anatomico-Medico-Chyrurgia do Hospital Real de Todos os Santos de Lisboa Occidental, no Introito de hum acto de Conclusoens, que defendeo” (p. 214). The frontispiece (unsigned) depicts an operating room during a surgical procedure, within an allegorical border representing the four disciplines of Monravá e Roca’s Academy. The first leaf of the final section of 16 unnumbered leaves begins with two sonnets addressed to Monravá e Roca by his students Manoel dos Santos Ferreyra and Paulo Teyxeyra. The fifteen leaves that follow contain an index. Provenance: Fernando de Freitas Simões (1896–1972), distinguished Portuguese physician and important book collector. His library was dispersed through sales by Christie’s London (1974?) and Arnaldo Henriques de Oliveira of Lisbon (1976), through private sales by the sons of his first wife, and by his second wife. j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da collecção portuguesa I, 190. Palau 176721. Innocêncio VIII, 256: with incomplete collation; giving 3 reasons for including
special list <strong>161</strong> 101 the Spanish-born Monravá e Roca: that his works form an integral and indispensable part of Portuguese medical history; that his works are rare and have mostly been destroyed; and that he is not mentioned in Barbosa Machado. Ferreira de Mira, Historia da medicina portuguesa pp. 199-204. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico- Cirurgica do Porto. Not in National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century STC, which lists other works by the author (but the present work is cited in LocatorPlus). Not located in NUC. OCLC: 48176806. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (but giving a collation with only 30 unnumbered pages at the end for one [missing the leaf with the two sonnets?], and without any collation for the other). Not located in COPAC. Not located in the Wellcome Library online catalogue. WorldCat locates copies at the Countway Library of the Harvard University Medical School and the National Library of Medicine. Not located in Aladin. Not located in Orbis.
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