RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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do Cor. te .” Small oblong white paper ticket with salmon border and
serrated edges with apparent inventory number, date and shelf location
supplied in manuscript, in upper inner corner of front wrapper recto.
29 pp., (1 blank l.). $150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this critique of some of the faculty at the School of
Medicine in Lisbon, with an account of the administration’s actions concerning them.
The author was apparently a student at the school.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa II, 284. Not in
Innocêncio; see X, 265 for another work by the author. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da
Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. NUC: DNLM. Not located in OCLC. Porbase
locates only one copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
150. MOREL DE RUBEMPRE, Joseph. Segredos da geração ou arte de
procrear raparigas ou rapazes espirituosos, de orna-los com o dom da belleza,
de havê-los sabios e robustos; precedida da descripção das partes naturaes do
homem e da mulher, com a indicação do uso particular de cada uma dellas;
terminada pela exposição dos meios proprios a conservar grande potencia
em amor até á mais avançada idade. Rio de Janeiro: Eduardo e Henrique
Laemmert, (ca. 1841-1849). 12°, publisher’s green quarter calf, spine
gilt, with elaborately blind-stamped paper sides. A few marks. Overall
good. 360 pp. $300.00
Translation of Les secrets de la génération, an extremely popular manual that first seems
to have appeared in 1830, and was in its twelfth French edition by 1840. This Portuguese
translation, according to the verso of the title-page as well as the colophon, was printed at
the Typographia Universal de Laemmert, Rua do Lavradio 53, which operated between
1841 and 1849 (see Berger, A tipografia no Rio de Janeiro p. 24).
The author opens with basic facts on the reproductive system, then discusses
methods of influencing the sex of a child, its intelligence, its strength and its beauty. At
the end (pp. 338-55) is an abridged translation of Lucina sine concubitu, Dr. John Hill’s
hoax on fhe Royal Society for refusing him membership: it purports to be the work of
one Abraham Johnson, and describes how he made a woman pregnant by having her
drink a solution full of little “animacules.” Lucina first appeared in London, 1750, and
was rapidly translated into Dutch, French and German.
j Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
Not located in NUC.
151. MOUTINHO, Antonio Ferreira. Breves reflexões ao autor do opusculo
“A homoeopathia: o que é, e o que vale.” 2 works in 1 volume. Porto:
Typographia do Braz Tisana, 1852. 8°, contemporary quarter sheep
over marbled boards (slightly rubbed), flat spine with gilt fillets. Tiny