RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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os exercicios da Academia Medico-Cirurugica do Rio de Janeiro, feito, e dirigido a Secretaria
d’Estado dos Negocios do Reino, por officio de 14 de Agosto de 1820 (proposals for improving
the Academy’s medical school); Regulamento interino para a fisicatura mor do Imperio do
Brasil (proposals for improving government oversight of the medical and pharmaceutical
professions, and public health); and Esboço de hum systema de medicina pratica, pelo qual
em qualquer parte do globo se podem curar todas as molestias irritativas, com hum só, e simples
remedio; applicação e formação d’este . . . .
These works sometimes appear on the market separately, but were meant to be
bound together. Despite a statement by Innocêncio to the contrary, we are virtually
certain there was only one printing.
A native of Lisbon, Bomtempo (1774-1843) received his medical training at the
University of Coimbra. In 1798 he was appointed physico-mór of Angola, and in 1808 left
for Brazil, where he became senior physician to D. Pedro I. Later he served as director
of the Academia Médico-Cirúrgica in Rio de Janeiro. His writings include Compendios
de materia medica (Rio de Janeiro, 1814), the first materia medica printed in Brazil, and
Compendios de medicina pratica (Rio de Janeiro, 1815), which Guerra termed “the most
important medical book of colonial Brazil.”
j Sacramento Blake V, 39: calling for 204 pp., and noting that it is a reprint of the
Memoria, Plano and Esboço. Innocêncio V, 23. Not in Valle Cabral, together or separately.
Mindlin, Highlights 486. JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books 825/1. Pires de Lima, Catalogo da
Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 588. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo
da colecção portuguesa I, 47. Rodrigues 417-9: calling for 2 ll. (general title and dedication),
then (2 ll.), 74 pp. with the Memoria, then 122 pp., (1 l.) with the Plano, etc.; see also 420,
the Plano separately listed with 40, (1) pp. Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa
pp. 306-7. Maggs, Bibliotheca brasiliensis 296. Wellcome II, 197. NUC: CtY-M (calling for
74, 122 pp. only), PPULC, PPC, DCU-IA, DNLM, DLC. RLIN: DNLM.