RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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included organizing a justice system, regulating the duties of chiefs, codifying African law,
organizing a civil register, controlling migration, and organizing labor and recruitment
for the government and private employers. The information presented in this report
would have been crucial for his position.
j Not located in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica
do Porto. Not located in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa.
OCLC: 80520657 (1908 and 1909 reports), without location and miscatalogued as Brazil,
Provincia de Moçambique); 50368161 lists it as 20 volumes, 1905-1924, but locates
only one complete run, at the National Library of Medicine; partial runs at University
of California at Los Angeles (1907-10), Yale (1907-9), Harvard (1907-9), Simon Fraser
University (1910 only?), and University of London (1907 and 1910). Porbase locates only
1908-1911. Not in Wellcome.
153. MÜLLER, João Wilhelm Christian. Discurso historico pronunciado
na Sessão Pública da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa em 24 de Junho
de 1812. Lisbon: Typografia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1812.
4°, contemporary crimson morocco (extremities worn, parts of spine
defective), flat spine, gilt border on covers, edges of covers gilt, all
textblock edges gilt, marbled endleaves. Woodcut arms of the Academia
Real das Sciencias on title page. Printed on bluish paper. Internally very
fine, overall good. 39 pp. $600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Summarizes the work of Academicians over the past
year, particularly in the fields of medicine and history. Considerable attention is given
to works on quinine and saltpeter.
Müller (1752-1814), a native of Göttingen, was described thus by Southey, in 1800:
“The Censor [i.e. the royal censor of books] was the Lutheran Minister here who changed
his religion and is now as sincere in Popery as he was in Protestantism. By his introduction
he is of indispensable use to me, for he is a man of power—communicative and very
well informed” (Currey, ed., New Letters of Robert Southey, I, 232).
j Innocêncio III, 383; X, 268; XI, 292. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca
da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da
colecção portuguesa. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 6329939 (Library of Congress). Porbase
locates only one copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
154. NAMORA, Fernando. Deuses e demónios da medicina. Lisbon: Livros
do Brasil, (1952). 8°, original illustrated wrappers (spotted). Minor foxing.
Overall in good condition. 316 pp., (2 ll.), illustrated with reproductions
of pencil or chalk sketches. $120.00
FIRST EDITION of a popular and frequently reprinted work consisting of biographies
of famous doctors and pioneers in medicine: Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, Paracelsus,
Vesalius, Paré, Harvey, Sydenham, John Hunter, Mesmer, Jenner, Laennec, Claude Bernard,