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brain itself, supplemented by illustrations. The other illustrations are portraits of the
individuals studied. On pp. 95-170 the author discusses the causes of microcephaly,
including atavism. Bombarda (1851-1910) was a professor of physiology at the Escola
Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa and director of the insane asylum at Rilhafolles, where the
individuals he studied for this work were patients.
Provenance: Manuel Vicente Alfredo da Costa (1859-1910), noted Portuguese surgeon
and librarian of the Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa II, 62. Not in Pires
de Lima, Catalogo da Biblioteca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. NUC: DNLM (with
only 170 pp.; our main text ends on p. 170, but the pagination picks up again in the
bibliography with p. 196, following the unpaginated leaves facing the plates). OCLC:
557679911; 14804770; 457092243. Porbase locates three copies: two in the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal, one in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. WorldCat locates copies
at the British Library, National Library of Medicine, University of Georgia, University of
California Irvine, International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Bibliothèque
Interuniversitaire de Médecine et d’Odontologie in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de
France, and the Université de Provence. Copac repeats the British Library only.
BOUND WITH:
OSORIO, Balthazar. Estudo dos escorpionideos no ponto de vista das leis e
theorias zoologicas. Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1890. Inscribed
by the author on the half title to Manuel Vicente Alfredo da Costa. Some
scattered foxing. (4 ll.), 130 pp.
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The first section is devoted to theories on the species
and the individual, the second to a study of scorpions (pp. 75-130). Osorio (1855-1926)
wrote numerous works on fish and crustaceans.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, II, 300: calling for only
2 preliminary leaves. NUC: DLC-P4. Not located in WorldCat. Not located in Copac.
One of Brazil’s Foremost Physicians on Tropical Fevers
and Government Involvement in Medicine
30. BOMTEMPO, José Maria. Trabalhos medicos offerecidos a Magestade
do Senhor D. Pedro I, Imperador do Brasil…. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia
Nacional, (1825). 4°, disbound, text block edges sprinkled blue-green.
Small woodcut vignettes on title-page and divisional titles. A very good
copy. (4 ll.), 74, (1 blank l.), 122 pp., (1 l. errata). $3,000.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this interesting collection of works by one of Brazil’s
foremost physicians. The first work, with divisional title and separate pagination, is
Memoria sobre algumas enfermidades do Rio de Janeiro, e mui particularmente sobre o abuso
geral, e pernicioso effeito da applicação da preciosa casca peruviana, ou quina. In it Bomtempo
draws upon his seven years’ experience treating tropical fevers in Angola to propose
new treatments for a summer fever (complicated by hepatitis) and a winter fever then
endemic in Brazil, and criticizes the excessive use of quinine. The other works, each
with a divisional title but paginated continuously, are Plano ou regulamento interino, para