RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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Typographia, Rua da Condessa no. 3, 1855. 8°, unbound (front wrapper
missing; blank blue-green rear wrapper present). Small typographical
vignette on title page. Light browning. Overall good. 16 pp. $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this addendum to Sines’s Memoria dirigida ao povo sobre
os meios preservativos, preventivos e curativos contra cholera, cholerina e typhoid. It describes
the phases of cholera, with appropriate medications for each.
Sines (1809-1877), a native of the village of the same name, near Setúbal, fought
with considerable heroism and sacrifice on the liberal side for D. Pedro and D. Maria
da Gloria against D. Miguel. In 1840 he abandoned a military career to become director
of a primary school in Lisbon. He became a fervent apostle of the medical doctrines of
François-Vincent Raspail (1794-1878), expending considerable energy propagating and
practicing them in Portugal.
j On Sines, see Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa, pp. 418, 478. Not in
Innocêncio, who cites (III, 360-1) thirteen other works by this author, including the one
to which this is an Apendice. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção
portuguesa, which cites seven other works by the author. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo
da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a
single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
207. SINES, J[oão] D[aniel] de. Dissertação critica sobre a epidemia de 1857
e sobre os actos das diversas entidades que contra ela figuaram ... Seguida da
estatistica nominal dos que foram tractados pelo methodo Raspail, da analyse
dos diversos tractamentos, e da comparação entre os seus resultados.... Primeira
edição. Lisbon: Na Typographia de M. de J. Coelho, Janeiro de 1858. 8°,
original green printed wrappers (part of rear wrapper torn off, small
defects at head and foot of spine, upper inner corner of front wrapper;
some soiling). Uncut and unopened. Small hole in last 2 leaves, with
loss of 4-5 letters per page. Overall a good copy. 151 pp. $120.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Sines looks for the causes of the epidemic, shows that
physicians attributed it to the wrong causes, analyses the actions of public health officials,
proposes how the loss of life can be reduced in the future, and calculates the number of
lives that could have been saved had better treatments been used.
Sines (1809-1877), a native of the village of the same name, near Setúbal, had fought
with considerable heroism and sacrifice on the liberal side for D. Pedro and D. Maria
da Gloria against D. Miguel. In 1840 abandoned a military career to become director
of a primary school in Lisbon. He became a fervent apostle of the medical doctrines of
François-Vincent Raspail (1794-1878), expending considerable energy propagating and
practicing them in Portugal.
j Innocêncio III, 360-1. On Sines, see Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa,
pp. 418, 478. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, which
cites seven other works by the author. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da
Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Not located in OCLC. Porbase lists without location.
Not located in Copac.