RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of the University of Toronto, and repeats the
British Library. Not located in Aladin. Not located in LocatorPlus. Not located in Hollis.
Not located in Orbis.
18. BARBOSA, Antonio Maria. Memoria sobre a tracheiotomia no
garrotilho apresentada a Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa …. Lisbon:
Typographia da Academia, 1863. Large 4° (28.1 x 22.5 cm.), original
green printed wrappers (upper wrapper foxed). Typographical border
on front wrapper. Uncut and unopened. Very good to fine. vii, 231
pp., (2 ll.). $100.00
FIRST EDITION. Concerns the use of tracheotomy to treat croup, with case studies,
a description of the operation and possible complications, and follow-up. The author,
born in Horta on the island of Fayal (Azores), was a member of the Royal Academy,
surgeon to the Queen, professor at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica de Lisboa and surgeon
at the Hospital de São José. Innocêncio notes that this work and the author’s Estudos
sobre o garrotilho ou crup, Lisbon 1861, were reprinted together in volume III, part 1 of
the Memorias da Academia, Nova Série, 1ª classe. Ferreira de Mira called him “talvez o
operador de maior nomeada no seu tempo” (p. 380).
j Innocêncio I, 196; VIII, 238-41. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da
colecção portuguesa II, 40. Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica
do Porto 396. Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa, p. 380; see also pp. 371, 381,
398, 406, 409, 416, 431, 432. NUC: DNLM, DLC. OCLC: 82113677 (National Library of
Medicine, Bayerische Staatsbibliotheek, Universiteitsbibliotheek Regensburg), 458618107
(Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médicine).
Not located in Porbase. Not located in Copac.
Virtues of an Eighteenth-Century Patent Medicine
19. BARLAMONT [or Berlaimont?], Charles. Elixir do universo,
nascido, e descuberto na superficie do mundo, e com mayor virtude no Paiz
de Lusitania, para prezervativo de algumas doenças, remedio de todas as
enfermidades, e prerogação de muitas vidas … traduzido por hum anonymo, e
impresso pela curiosidade de Antonio Pedro Maldonado. Lisboa Occidental:
Officina da Musica Joaquiniana, 1735?. 8°, contemporary speckled calf
(spine worn, slightly defective at head and a bit of worming on joints,
corners chafed), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments,
crimson leather lettering piece, gilt letter, text block edges sprinkled
red. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Very minor soiling to a few leaves
at front. Despite the binding wear a sound, very good copy. From the
library of the Conde de Sucena, with his tag indicating that the book was