RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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170. PINTO, Ayres B. Opusculo sobre febre amarella e cholera morbus asiatica
e seu tratamento. Lisbon: Typographia Universal de Thomaz Q. Antunes,
Impressor da Casa Real, 1870. 8°, original pink printed wrappers (light
soiling). A very good to fine copy. 16 pp. $125.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this work prompted by a yellow-fever epidemic in
Spain. The author states that the cause of yellow fever is still unknown, but describes the
symptoms and suggests nine treatments, among them doses of belladonna, nux-vomica,
and digitalis. For cholera he also describes the symptoms and offers treatments, which
include camphor, sulphur, ipecacuanha, and arsenic.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, II, 323. Not in Pires
de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto, which cites another
work by this author. Not located in Innocêncio. Not located in OCLC. Porbase lists the
work without locating a copy. Not located in Copac.
171. PINTO, Diogo Antonio Correa de Sequeira. Relatorio dirigido ao
governo de Sua Magestade … ácera da organisação e serviço dos hospitaes
provisorios de cholera ultimamente estabelecidos na Capital. Lisbon: Imprensa
Nacional, 1857. 8°, original green printed wrappers (minor stains and
soiling). Numerous tables in text. Wrappers with typographical borders.
Wood-engraved vignette of a rooster and serpent on rear wrapper. A fine
copy. Author’s presentation inscription on front wrapper to Joaquim
Felippe de Soure [?}, signed “De Sequeira Pinto”. 2 blank ll., 42 pp., 1
blank l. $180.00
FIRST EDITION. The author, who was head nurse at the Hospital Real de S. José,
one of Lisbon’s major hospitals (established in 1501 with royal patronage), describes
the seven temporary hospitals established to tend the victims of the 1855 cholera
epidemic. He provides statistics on admissions, patients cured and deceased, length
of stay, expenses, and employees.
Provenance: Joaquim Filipe de Soure (1805-1882), a magistrate and parliamentary
deputy with a law degree from Coimbra University, served as Juiz da Relação Comercial
in Lisbon and on the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça. Elected several times to Parliament,
beginning in 1834, he served as President of the Câmara de Deputados in 1857. After the
1842 revolt in Porto he was Minister of Justice for 24 hours in the short-lived government
of the Duke of Palmela. He occupied the same post again from 26 May to 19 July 1846,
and from 22 to 26 May 1851.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, II, 324-5. Not in
Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Not located in
Innocêncio. On Joaquim Filipe de Soure see Grande enciclopédia XXIX, 748. OCLC: 559593307
(British Library). Porbase locates a copy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Biblioteca
de João Paulo II, and another copy without any known location, but apparently in the
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats the British Library only.