RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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Causes & Treatment of Venereal Disease
9. ALYON, Pierre Philippe. Ensaio sobre as propriedades medicinaes do
oxigenio e sobre a applicação deste principio nas enfermidades venereas, psoricas,
e herpeticas, appresentado a Sociedade de Medicina da Paris a 25 de Junho de
1797… traduzido do françez. Lisbon: Na Of. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira,
1799. 8°, contemporary marbled wrappers (worn). Title-page slightly
soiled at fore-edge and with small hole in margin; minor stains. Uncut.
Overall a very good to fine copy. 206 pp. $500.00
First edition in Portuguese. This work, by a French botany instructor and pharmacist,
was first printed in Paris in 1797. The author argues that the effectiveness of mercury
in the treatment of syphilis is due to mercury’s chemical reaction with oxygen. Pages
184-99 deal with the cause of venereal disease and its effects.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 21. Pires de
Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 99. Wellcome II, 38.
National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century STC p. 12. Ferreira de Mira, História
da medicina portuguesa pp. 287-8. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 2180. Not
in JCB Portuguese and Brazilian Books. NUC: DNLM. OCLC: 14845212. Porbase locates
two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not in Josiah. WorldCat locates
four copies, at the National Library of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, University of
Texas Medical Branch Library-Moody Medical Library Galveston, and Wellcome Library.
Copac repeats Wellcome Library only.
10. ANDRADE, Joaquim Navarro de. Distributio methodica
interpretandorum aphorismorum Hippocratis … juxta nosologicam methodum
chirurgiae practicae Plenckii, primarumque Linearum praxeos medicinalis
Cullenii. Coimbra: Academia Portugalia, 1819. 8°, contemporary blue
wrappers (spine chipped, some soiling). Marginal dampstain to lower
inner corner of a few leaves; minor marginal worming touching 2 words;
small hole in F1, without loss; a few small stains. Uncut (some edges
fraying). Overall good. (2 ll.), 99 pp. $180.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this index to diseases mentioned by Hippocrates, with
a Latin translation of what he said and references to published editions of his writings.
Extensive footnotes are included.
The author, a native of Guimarães, received his medical degree from Coimbra in
1788. He was for many years director of the Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade de
Coimbra, and a corresponding member of the Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. He
was elected a deputy to the Consitutional Côrtes of 1821, but declined to take his seat.
j Innocêncio IV, 136 (without collation); on the author, see also XII, 120, 397. Lisbon,
Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 29: calling for (27), 99 pp. (a