RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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lettering, original illustrated wrappers bound in. Very fine. 99 pp., (1 l.),
22 ll. plates (some in color or printed on both sides). $250.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this exhibition of Portuguese apothecary jars, shown
September 4-9, 1972, for the XXXII Congresso Internacional de Ciências Farmacêuticas.
175. [PORTUGAL. LAWS. D. João, Prince Regent of Portugal 1792-
1816, King of Portugal 1816-1826]. [Begins]: Eu O Principe Regente Faço
saber aos que o presente Alvará virem, que Havendo Eu Creado Fizico Mór,
e Cirurgião Mor do Reino, Estados, e Dominios Ultramarinos, por Decretos
de sete de Fevereiro do corrente anno, com o util fim de entenderem em tudo,
quanto pode concorrer para o aumento, e conservação da saude publica …. Rio
de Janeiro: Impressão Regia, signed 23 November 1808. Folio (29.2 x
20 cm.), disbound. Woodcut initial. A good to very good copy. [2 ll.].
$900.00
FIRST EDITION of this decree defining the jurisdiction of fizico mór and cirurgião
mór: roughly, chief physician and chief surgeon.
j Almeida Camargo and Borba de Moraes, Bibliografia da Impressão Régia do Rio de
Janeiro II, no. 66. Not in Valle Cabral.
Major and Lasting Reform of Medical Education in Portugal
176. [PORTUGAL. Laws and Statutes. D. Maria II]. Decreto. Attendendo
a que as Escolas de Cirurgia de Lisboa, e Porto .... [colophon:] Lisbon:
Imprensa Nacional, 29 December 1836. Folio (30 x 21 cm.), unbound.
Caption title. A very fine, uncut copy. 6 pp. $300.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION [?] of a pivotal decree for the history of medical
education in Portugal. The Royal School of Surgery, established in Lisbon in June 1825,
was transformed by this decree into the Schools of Surgery and Medicine (Escolas
Medico-Cirurgicas) of Lisbon and Porto. The staff was greatly expanded, with new
chairs in medicine added and significant changes in the curriculum. The decree sets out
these changes, indicating the proposed course of study, examinations, requirements for
matriculation and graduation, and the salaries and duties of professors. Provision is also
made for the annexation of a school of pharmacy. The printed signature of Manuel da
Silva Passos appears under that of the Queen at the beginning, and again at the end, for
the Secretaria d’Estado dos Negocios do Reino.
Manuel da Silva Passos, better known as “Passos Manuel” (1801-1861), was a
native of São Martinho de Guifões, Bouças (today Matosinhos, a suburb of Porto). He
had been a key figure in the left-wing liberal Setembrista revolt of 9 September 1836. In
the government formed by the Visconde de Sá de Bandeira, which held power from 5
November 1836 to 1 June 1837, Passos Manuel was simultaneously Ministro do Reino (a