RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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Treatment of Tapeworms, Roundworms, and Other Parasites
90. GOMES, Bernardino Antonio (the elder). Memoria sobre a virtude
tœnifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á tœnea,
e com huma estampa. Lisbon: Typ. da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1822.
4°, recent wrappers. Large folding engraved plate. A fine copy. Bookplate
of Fernando Morais. (2 ll.), 39, (1) pp., folding plate. $900.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this treatise on the use of a root medicine to treat
tapeworms, roundworms and similar pariasites. The author refers to cases from
Portuguese Africa, India and Brazil, and gives clinical observations based on his own
case studies, several of which had been observed in Brazil. He describes in detail five
types of parasites, describes symptoms, advocates his remedy, and gives zoological
observations concerning the parasites. The large folding engraved plate depicts each
of the five varieties of parasites from several different perspectives. These figures are
explained in detail on pp. 37-8.
Gomes (1768-1823) wrote Ensaio dermosographico . . . (1820), the first work on
dermatology in Portuguese, which set the terminology for skin diseases in Portugal. He
was a naval surgeon in Brazil from 1798 to 1801, during which time he wrote Memoria
sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro. When finally published, at Rio de Janeiro, 1809, it became
the earliest monograph on medicine printed in Brazil. Gomes also wrote on elephantiasis,
quinine, fevers and botany.
j Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 357. Innocêncio I, 361 (giving incomplete collation).
Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 136-7. Pires de Lima,
Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 1834 (giving incomplete collation).
See also Guerra, Bibliografia medica brasileira 2, and Garrison and Morton (1983) 1840.
Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 209, 282, 288, 300, 304, 315, 322, 323,
488. Not in JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books. NUC: DNLM, PPAN. RLIN: Harvard.
OCLC: 230955198 (Harvard University, University of Toronto), 27118393 (University of
Kansas, Wellcome Library).
91. [GOMES, Bernardino António (the younger), and Caetano
Maria Ferreira da Silva Beirão]. Catalogus plantarum horti botanici
Medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII. Lisbon: Typografia
Nacional, 1851. 8°, contemporary straight-grain quarter purple morocco
over marbled boards (slight wear to corners), flat spine with gilt fillets
and lettering (faded), green endleaves, text-block edges sprinkled green.
A fine copy. xxvi pp., (1 l.), 258 pp. $600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this list of some 1,863 plants in the botanical garden
at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica of Lisbon, arranged by genus and species according to
Decandolle’s classification. The authors are careful to note in which part of Europe,
India, the Americas, Asia or Africa the plants were originally found and whether they
are annual, perennial, tree, vine, etc.
The Escola was established at the instigation of an army physician in 1825 (as one of
the Regia Escolas de Cirurgia), to alleviate the dearth of trained physicians in Portugal.