RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE
RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE
RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE
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special list <strong>161</strong> 73<br />
Ataide e Sousa, ninth Conde de Monsanto and third Marquês de Cascaes, to whom this<br />
work is dedicated.<br />
j Innocêncio II, 378. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I,<br />
146. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto, which<br />
lists editions of 1731 and 1749 (2020-2021). National Library of Medicine Eighteenth-Century<br />
STC, p. 207. See Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 236-7. Wellcome III,<br />
248 lists only the Lisbon: Off. Augustiniana, 1731 edition. OCLC: 606437077. Porbase<br />
locates three copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one in the Biblioteca<br />
Central da Marinha.<br />
First Inventory of Portuguese Water Sources with Medicinal Properties<br />
102. HENRIQUES, Francisco da Fonseca. Aquilegio medicinal em que se da<br />
noticia das agoas de caldas, de fontes, rios, poços, lagoas, e cisternas, do Reyno de<br />
Portugal, e dos Algarves, que ou pelas virtudes medicinaes, que tem, ou por outra<br />
alguma singularidade, são dignas de particular memoria. Lisbon: Officina da<br />
Musica, 1726. 8°, contemporary limp vellum (worn and stained). Woodcut<br />
headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Minor worming in gutter, not affecting<br />
text. Overall good. (16 ll.), 288 pp., (11, 1 blank ll.). $700.00<br />
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of the first inventory of Portuguese hot springs, fountains,<br />
rivers, wells, lakes and reservoirs reputed to have medicinal properties, including some<br />
with allegedly supernatural powers of healing. For the 337 entries, Fonseca Henriques<br />
gives locations and often also comments on the facilities and the history of the site. The<br />
extensive index by location also sorts the waters by what they are reputed to cure, ranging<br />
from kidney stones and stomach pains to paralysis, rabies, and venereal disease.<br />
Fonseca Henriques (1665-1731)—or “the Mirandella doctor,” as he called himself—<br />
was born in Mirandella, Tras-os-montes. He studied medicine at the University of Coimbra<br />
and practiced in Lisbon, where he maintained a large and illustrious clientele and earned<br />
the reputation of being the most erudite and esteemed physician of his time. His patients<br />
included D. João V, to whom this work is dedicated.<br />
j Innocêncio II, 378: “ainda estimado, e procurado.” Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina,<br />
Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 147-8. National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century<br />
STC p. 207. Wellcome III, 248. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Escola Medico-Cirurgica<br />
do Porto. Grande enciclopédia XIII, 93-4: reproducing the title-page of the Aquilegio. See<br />
Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa p. 236. NUC: DNLM. Porbase locates<br />
only one copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.<br />
103. HENRY, L.-V. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine, présentée et soutenue<br />
le 30 août 1843 ... Paris: Rignoux, Imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine,<br />
1843. Faculté de Médecine de Paris, no. 222. Large 4°, disbound. Light<br />
browning at edges. A good copy. 57 pp. $60.00<br />
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this thesis presented to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris<br />
on questions regarding hernias, complications of hysteria, blood vessels, and movement.<br />
j Not located in OCLC. Not located in Copac.
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