RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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richard c. ramer
At first those educated at the Escolas were allowed to practice only where no universitytrained
physicians, or too few, were available. In the 1830s and the decades following,
reforms made training at the Escolas the equivalent of university training.
One of the required courses at the Escolas was botany, hence the existence of the
botanical garden and of this catalogue. Gomes and Ferreira da Silva Beirão both received
degrees from Coimbra and both taught at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica in Lisbon. Gomes
was a prolific author of other medical works (see Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo
da collecção portuguesas I, 195-200).
j Innocêncio I, 363-4; II, 12; X, 62-3: calling for only xxv, 258 pp. Not in Lisbon,
Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da collecção portuguesa. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo
da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. On the Escola Medico-Cirurgica, see
Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 349-57. NUC: DLC.
Based on Visits to Mental Hospitals Across Europe
in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
92. GOMES, Bernardino Antonio (the younger). Dos estabelecimentos
de alienados nos Estados principaes da Europa. Lisbon: Typ. de Vicente
Jorge de Castro & Irmão, 1844. 4°, contemporary plain lime-green
wrappers (front wrapper detached; spine somewhat defective; frayed).
Occasional minor foxing. A few leaves with outer edges frayed, never
affecting the text. A good, uncut, partially unopened copy. Presentation
inscription signed “O Autor” in upper outer corner of front wrapper
recto. Old (contemporary?) marginal ink annotations. 123 pp., 7 folding
lithographed plates with plans of hospitals. $400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this treatise on mental hospitals. In the company of
the Marques do Fayal, António Cabral de Sá Nogueira, and Francisco de Assís Bastos,
the author visited establishments in Belgium, Holland, various German states, the north
of Italy, France and England. The plates show plans of hospitals in Baden, Munich, Paris,
Wakefield (Yorkshire). and London (Hanwell and the infamous Bethlem or Bedlam). The
first plan is of a model hospital according to Dr. Jacobi.
The author (1806-1877), son of a physician of the same name, was a professor of
medicine and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon. He studied medicine
in Paris and accompanied the Duque de Palmelha on his expedition to Terceira. Through
his work he had a significant effect on medical nomenclature.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa II, 196. Innocêncio
I, 362 (calling for only 1 plate); for other works by the author, see also VIII, 381. Not in
Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. OCLC: 253325691;
30984595. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. WorldCat
lists copies at the Countway Library of the Harvard University Medical School and the
Bibliotheque Centrale du Muséum National D’Histoire Naturalle, Paris. Not located in
COPAC. Not located in Orbis. Not located in the Wellcome Library Online Catalogue.
Not located in LocatorPlus.