RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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richard c. ramer
1873. 12°, later cloth stamped in blind with title in gilt, marbled edges.
Browning to half-title and final leaf due to offsetting from endleaves.
Overall a very good copy. (1 l.), 123 pp. $250.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION; includes recipes for medications to be used in treating
diabetes, syphilis, hemorrhoids, colds, worms and baldness. Pages 113-23 contain a list
of 31 Brazilian plants (with their Latin names and the provinces in which they are found)
that can be used for medicinal purposes.
j Not in Borba de Moraes (1983). Not located in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos.
Not in Tancredo Paiva. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção
portuguesa, or Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in KVK.
Not in NLM LocatorPlus.
165. [PHYSICIAN’S HANDBOOK]. O vade mecum do medico, ou breve
resumo da medicina pratica. Extrahido das obras dos mais celebres medicos;
traduzido do inglez em francez, e deste em portuguez. Lisbon: Na Typografia
Rollandiana, 1804. 8°, contemporary tree sheep (worn at head and foot
of spine, corners, some worming to sides), flat spine gilt with black
leather lettering piece, gilt letter, marbled endleaves, text block edges
sprinkled red. Small typographical vignette on title page. Typographical
headpieces also used as text dividers throughout. Slight toning. Internally
in very good condition; overall good to very good. 148 pp., (2 ll. advt.).
$175.00
First and apparently the only edition in Portuguese of this general guide to
medical practice.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 338. Pires de Lima,
Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 11000. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A
tradução em Portugal 2579. Not in Innocêncio or Coutinho, Bibliografia franco-portuguesa.
Not located in NUC. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal. Not located in WorldCat. Not located in Copac. Not located in the online
catalogue of the Wellcome Library. Not located in LocatorPlus. Not located in Hollis.
Not located in Orbis.
Pharmacological Duel
166. PINTO, Antonio José de Sousa [?]. Apologia dialogal visita aos
visitadores, e exame nos examinadores: conversação entre dois boticarios, hum
provinciano e outro lisbonense. He o seu objecto principal avaliar a utilidade
de algumas formulas, e preparações pharmaceuticas, que o boticario Antonio
José de Souza Pinto publicou em huma só folha volante, que fez distribuir