RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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richard c. ramer
Eighteenth-Century STC. NUC: ICN. RLIN: MAHG. OCLC: 54826700 (Newberry Library),
81209954 (Harvard Medical School). Porbase locates one copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
3. ALEXANDRINO, P.J. Dissertação sobre a cataracta, appresentada e
sustentada na Escóla Regia de Cirurgia, no Hospital Real de S. Joze de Lisboa,
no dia 20 de Outubro de 1827. Lisbon: Typografia Silviana, 1827. Small 4°,
disbound. Small woodcut vignette on title-page. Small light waterstains
on title-page and three following leaves. Some spotting, mostly in blank
margins. A good to very good copy. 51 pp. $400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Describes surgical removal of cataracts.
j Innocêncio VI, 415. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Biblioteca da Escola Medico-
Cirurgica do Porto. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa.
Not located in NUC. Not located in RLIN. Not located in OCLC.
Treatment of Gunshot Wounds
4. ALMEIDA, Antonio d’. Dissertaçao sobre o methodo mais simples, e
seguro de curar as feridas das armas de fogo …. Lisbon: Na Regia Officina
Typografica, 1797. 4°, contemporary sheep (small defect at head of
spine, one joint cracking; wear to corners; other minor binding defects),
flat spine with gilt fillets, paper tag on spine. Woodcut royal arms of
Portugal on title page. Woodcut vignette on p. xxvii. Typographical
headpiece on p. 1. Some dampstaining at top near inner margin. A good
copy. Stamp in title-page upper inner margin (“8...5”). xxvii, 62 pp., (1
blank l.). $750.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of the first published work by this brilliant professor of
surgery at the Royal Hospital of São José, Lisbon. It covers all aspects of treating bullet
wounds: diagnosis, removal of foreign bodies, prognosis, and treatment, with special
sections on wounds in the head, chest, abdomen and extremities. In the introduction
Almeida summarizes earlier works dealing with gunshot wounds, beginning with that
of Vigo and including works in Spanish, Italian and English.
j Innocêncio I, 83: without collation. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da
colecção portuguesa I, 7-8. Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica
do Porto 64. Imprensa Nacional 508: calling for xxviii, 62 pp. Martins de Carvalho I, 43.
National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century STC, p. 11. Wellcome II, 35: collating
as this copy. Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa p. 280. Not located in NUC.
RLIN: MnU-B, DNLM. OCLC: 3527697. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal. WorldCat locates six copies, at New York Academy of Medicine,
National Library of Medicine, Indiana University, University of Minnessota, Wellcome
Library, and the Universidade de São Paulo. Copac repeats Wellcome Library.