RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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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. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa
II, 243. Not in Wellcome. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-
Cirurgica do Porto, which lists other works by the author. On the Real Escola, see Ferreira
de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 349-50. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 560524329
(British Library). Porbase locates a copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
116. LEITÃO, António José de Lima. Um fragmento da história da epidemia,
que, sob o nome de cólera-morbus asiática, havendo percorrido o Asia e a maior
parte da Europa, chegou a Portugal no corrente anno de 1833. [colophon:]
Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1834. 4°, contemporary blue wrappers, text
block edges tinted yellow. Caption title. Clean and crisp. A fine to very
fine copy. 44 pp. $400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this description of the outbreak of cholera in Portugal
in 1833, including its spread, government actions taken to curb it, and newspaper reports.
Perhaps most interesting is the detailed report of an autopsy performed in Portugal on
a cholera victim (pp. 12-17). The first appendix is a report of a microscopic examination
of water tainted with cholera. The second is an annotated bibliography of Portuguese
works on the 1833 epidemic.
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. Not in Wellcome. NUC: DNLM (giving
publication date as 1833). OCLC: 45167625 (New York Academy of Medicine), University
of Toronto), 560524370 (British Library). Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal.
117. LEMOS JUNIOR, Maximiano Augusto Oliveira. O “Auto
dos Fisicos” de Gil Vicente. Comentario medico. Porto: Typ. a vapor da
“Enciclopedia Portuguesa”, 1921. 8°, original printed wrappers (slightly
chipped). Somewhat browned. Overall good. (2 ll.), 55, (1) pp. $50.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this medical commentary on a work by Gil Vicente
(1465-1537), one of Portugal’s most famous playwrights and poets. Oliveira Lemos (1860-
1923) was the first professor of legal medicine at the School of Medicine and Surgery in