RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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Porto. In 1890 he opened a clinic for mental and nervous diseases, and in 1921 was named
vice-rector of the University of Coimbra. He wrote many works on Portuguese medical
history and founded the Arquivos de Historia da Medicina Portuguesa.
j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 318. For other works (pre-1911) by the author, see Lisbon,
Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa II, 235-6.
118. LEMOS JUNIOR, Maximiano Augusto Oliveira. Gomes Coelho e
os medicos. Porto: Typ. a vapor da “Enciclopedia Portuguesa”, 1922. 8°,
later (mid-twentieth-century?) navy quarter sheep over marbled boards,
spine richly gilt with raised bands in five unequal compartments, gilt
lettering and numbering, marbled endleaves, top edges tinted blue,
blue-green silk ribbon place marker, original printed wrappers bound in.
A fine copy. Brown on beige printed paper ticket (5 x 4 cm.) of Livraria
Academica, Porto in upper outer corner of front pastedown endleaf.
(2 ll.), 104 pp., (1 l., 1 blank ll.), 12 half-tone plates containing portraits
of Gomes Coelho’s medical contemporaries. $250.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho (1839-1871)
physician and surgeon, is better known as Júlio Dinis, a noted playwright and novelist
who was extremely popular during his lifetime and is still widely read. He died at age 31
of tuberculosis, whose onset had forced him to resign as deputy professor at the medical
school in Porto. In this volume, Oliveira Lemos examines Dinis’s relationships with his
teachers and colleagues in the medical field.
j See Innocêncio XII, 54-7. NUC: DLC, DNLM. Porbase locates 2 copies, both at
the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac locates two copies, at the Wellcome Library
and the British Library.
119. LEMOS JUNIOR, Maximiano Augusto Oliveira. Zacuto Lusitano:
a sua vida e a sua obra. Porto: Eduardo Tavares Martins, 1909. 4°, recent
mottled green leatherette, original printed wrappers bound in. Light
marginal dampstaining to lower outer corner, not affecting text. Overall
a good to very good copy. Author’s six-line presentation inscription to
Augusto Brandão on the half-title. Frontis, 398 pp., (1 l.), illustrated.
$160.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this biography of the New Christian Zacuto Lusitano
(1575-1649), whom Ferreira de Mira called “o mais notável médico português do séc. XVII.”
Born in Lisbon, Zacuto studied medicine at Coimbra and Siguença and then practiced in
Lisbon until the Inquisition drove him to seek refuge in Amsterdam. There he distinguished
himself as a medical historian, publishing De medicorum principum historia in 1629.
Oliveira Lemos (1860-1923) was the first professor of legal medicine at the School of
Medicine and Surgery in Porto. In 1890 he opened a clinic for mental and nervous diseases,