RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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lámina. Zaragoza: Polo & Monje, 1830. 8°, contemporary tree sheep (head
of spine slightly defective; other minor wear), flat spine gilt, crimson
morocco lettering piece, gilt letter, marbled endleaves, blue silk place
marker, text-block edges sprinkled red. Minor soiling at fore-edge of
title page. Overall a very good copy. Ownership inscription dated 1830
facing title-page. 357 pp., (1 blank l.); lacking the folding plate. $75.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION? We have found no other edition and no other copy.
It includes cures for snakebite, burns, tumors, inflammation, cataracts, and insect bites.
The Manual considerably predates Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861),
but offers the same sort of information, including how to cook, clean, dye, sew, make
varnish and inks, stain wood, and perform taxidermy (pp. 323-5).
j Palau 149744: lists only this edition. Not located in OCLC.
107. HOMEM, João Vicente Torres, Barão de Torres Homem. Estudo
clinico sobre as febres do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Classica
de Nicolao Alves, 1877. 8°, original printed wrappers (spine darkened
and chipping, defective at head and foot). Light browning. Waterstains,
mostly to front wrapper, and to a lesser extent, to the title page. Uncut
and mostly unopened. Overall a good copy. vii, 315 pp., 7 folding plates
with graphs. $200.00
FIRST EDITION. Includes discussions of yellow fever, meningitis, epilepsy, and
typhoid fever. A second edition appeared in Rio de Janeiro, 1886.
Moll noted that as a clinician, “In Brazil none have excelled the clear judgment
of Torres Homem” (Æsculapius in Latin America p. 311; see also p. 477). Torres Homem
(1837-1887), a native of Rio de Janeiro, followed in the footsteps of his father, Joaquim
Vicente Torres Homem, a physician and professor at the Faculdade de Medicina of
Rio de Janeiro. João was a corresponding member of the Real Academia das Sciencias
de Lisboa and of other learned societies, and wrote a number of books and articles on
various medical subjects.
j Sacramento Blake IV, 64. See also Santos Filho, História geral da medicina brasileira,
pp. 165, 167. Not in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do
Porto. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa. Not located
in NUC. OCLC: 504320749; 39399502. Porbase (erroneously listing the book under the
author’s father’s name) locates a copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. WorldCat
locates copies at the British Library, National Library of Medicine, and University of
California at Los Angeles. Copac repeats the British Library copy only.
108. IBARROLA, Paulo Antonio. Memoria em que se prova que as feridas
de pelouro, ou de armas de fogo são por si innocentes, e simples a sua cura …
tirada de Castelhano em linguagem, e augmentada com algumas notas por
Manoel Joaquim Henriques de Paiva. Lisbon: João Procopio Correa da