RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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he left the society after the Prince Regent remonstrated with him (pp. 32-4), and later
describes his imprisonment by the Inquisition and how he was given permission to leave
the country (pp. 37-40).
In this petition the author begs the Prince Regent (still in Brazil) to clear his name
and restore his position: “Jamais commetti, Senhor, hum crime: as Leis não me declarárão
athe hoje Reo: com tudo eu vejo a minha reputação denegrida, manchada a minha honra,
e a minha fama ultrajada” (p. 1).
While in England, Abrantes e Castro helped found the emigré journal O investigador
portuguez. Although offered the position of counselor of state in 1827, he refused to accept
it. On his death in 1833, he left a library of over 4,000 volumes with an appraised value
of over 1 million réis, to which he briefly refers in this work: “a minha livraria, unica
riqueza, que tenho” (p. 15).
j Innocêncio I, 380: noting that he had seen only a single copy in a private library.
Ayres de Magalhães Sepúlveda I, 17. Not located in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina,
Catálogo da colecção portuguesa. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola
Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Greenlee Catalogue I, 2. Not in Palha; 3491 is another work by
the author. Not in Azevedo-Samodães, Ameal or Avila-Perez. NUC: ICN.
49. CELLE, Eugene. Hygiene practica dos paizes quentes, ou indagações
acerca das causas e tratamento das molestias destas regiões. Domingos José
Bernardino de Almeida, translator. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia de M.
Barreto, 1856. 8°, contemporary navy quarter morocco over diced paper
boards (rubbed, foot of spine defective, 5 cm. of upper joint split near
head of spine, horizontal tear to spine a few centimeters below head,
corners worn, some wear to other extremities). Very slight browning,
a few small stains, occasional very light foxing. Overall a good copy;
internally very good to fine. Inscribed by the translator to his “Mestre
& amigo,” Luis Pereira da Fonseca. (2 ll.), 207, iv pp., (1 l. errata).
$400.00
First and only edition of this Portuguese translation, with revisions, from Celle’s
French work on tropical climates and their effect on the human body. Celle had been
stationed at the Hospital Militar in Mazatlan. The translator, Domingos José Bernardino
de Almeida, a native of Porto (b. 1828), adapted the work for Brazilians based on his
own lengthy stay in the Americas. The work covers humid and dry hot climates: their
effects on men, plants and animals; diseases from mosquitos and water; and the effects
of native foods such as chocolate, coffee and tobacco on the digestive tract.
The author was physician at the Hospital da Santa Casa de Misericordia in Rio de
Janeiro, beginning in 1856, and at the Hospital da Sociedade Portugueza de Beneficencia
in the same city, beginning in 1858.
j Innocêncio II, 187; IX, 141; IX, 443. Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola
Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 908. Not located in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo
da colecção portuguesa. NUC: DNLM. OCLC: 14844901. Not located in Porbase. WorldCat
cites the National Library of Medicine copy only. Not located in Copac. Not located in
Aladin. Not located in Hollis. Not located in Orbis.