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venereal disease. The Nacional Library of Medicine cites a Rio de Janeiro 1825 edition,
which apparently is the first edition in Portuguese. The present edition contains an
introduction by the translator (pp. iii-iv), and a preface by the publisher (the unnumbered
leaf following p. xiv and preceding the main text); neither appears to be present in the
editions published in Brazil. Portuguese translations appeared at Lisbon in 1826, 1828,
1830, 1838, and 1874, as well as in Rio de Janeiro, 1825 and 1826.
Provenance: The earlier signature is possibly that of José Jorge Colaço (1783-1859),
Portuguese consul general in Tangier and Portuguese diplomatic agent to the Sultan
of Morocco, father of José Daniel Colaço, 1.º Barão de Colaço e Macnamara (Tangier
1831-Lisbon 1907). See Grande enciclopédia VII. 104.
j Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 3984: without collation; also citing
Lisbon editions of 1828 and 1830. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção
portuguesa II, 239. See also Innocêncio XVII, 20 (a Rio de Janeiro, 1826 edition and mention
of one of Lisbon, 1874 and “various others”). This edition not in Wellcome; see III, 497
(a Lisbon, 1830 edition). No edition in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola
Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 80394638. Porbase locates only a
single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. WorldCat locates this edition at the
Harvard University Medical School only, the Rio de Janeiro 1825 edition at the National
Library of Medicine, and a Lisbon 1830 edition at the Wellcome Library and the Bakken
Library & Museum of Electricity in Life. This edition not in Copac, which repeats the
1830 edition at the Wellcome Library and cites no others in Portuguese.
113. LEITÃO, António José de Lima. Breve aviso ao pôvo acérca do
tratamento da doença epidèmica que grassa na Europa com o nome de
Côlera-Morbus Asiàtico. [colophon:] Lisbon: Impressão Regia, 1833. 8°,
contemporary plain blue-grey wrappers. Caption title. A very good to
fine copy. 16 pp. $300.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this contribution to the literature on cholera, with
comments on the disease and on treating its early and advanced stages.
Lima Leitão (1787-1856), a major figure in Portuguese medicine, was born in
Lagos (Algarve) and served as a physician with the French and the Portuguese armies
from 1808 to 1814, before moving to Brazil. In 1816 he was sent from Rio de Janeiro to
Mozambique, where he was chief physician, and from there in 1819 to India, to act as
Intendente de Agricultura. Lima Leitão was a professor at the Royal School of Surgery in
Lisbon, president of the Lisbon Society of Medical Sciences, and an active contributor to
the Portuguese medical press. He served twice in the Cortes and published numerous
works on medicine and politics, as well as some poetry and a translation of Virgil.
j Innocêncio I, 169. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção
portuguesa, or Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto,
both of which list other works by the author. OCLC: 560524318 (British Library), 27159823
(Wellcome Library). Not located in WorldCat, which lists a single copy of a related title by
the same author, printed the same year by the same publisher, in the Wellcome Library.
Not located in COPAC, which lists two copies of the related title, at the British Library
and at Wellcome. KVK (44 databases searched) locates a single copy, via Porbase (no
location given). Not located in LocatorPlus.