RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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128. MACHADO, João Lopes Cardozo. Apologia da Agoa de Inglaterra da Real
Fabrica de José Joaquim de Castro, em obsequio da verdade …. (Printed wrapper:)
London: W. Lewis, 1812. 4°, mid-twentieth-century navy half morocco over
marbled boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt letter,
original printed upper wrapper bound in (mounted). Minor stains. Overall
a very good copy. 25 pp., (1 blank l.). $600.00
FIRST EDITION; another (a reprint?) appeared in 1931. This bit of propaganda by
a native of Pernambuco gives a fascinating history of the manufacture and distribution
of Agoa de Inglaterra. Originally imported from England—hence the name—this patent
medicine was composed primarily of powdered cinchona bark dissolved in wine. Since
quinine, the active ingredient of cinchona, was not isolated until 1820, Agoa de Inglaterra
was widely popular as a remedy for the malaria that was endemic to Portugal.
The front wrapper, which gives the printer and place of printing (not mentioned
on the title-page or elsewhere in the book), is usually missing.
j Sacramento Blake III, 475. Innocêncio III, 398. Santos Filho, História geral da medicina
brasileira p. 334. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 179. Not
in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. See Ferreira de
Mira, História da medicina portuguesa p. 322. NUC: PBL. OCLC: 6813734 (National Library of
Medicine, John Carter Brown Library, University of Toronto), 560420152 (British Library).
Not located in Porbase, which lists 2 copies of the 1931 edition.
129. MACHADO, Virgilio. O Doutor Bernardino Gomes (1768-1823), a sua
vida e a sua obra. Lisbon: Portugalia Editora, (1925). Large 4° (25.9 x 19.8
cm.), original illustrated wrappers (upper joint with tear of about 6 cm.
at foot of spine; outer edges a bit frayed; slight foxing). Light browning.
Uncut and partially unopened. Overall good. Inscribed by the author
on the half-title. Frontispiece portrait, 134 pp., (1 l.), 21 plates. $50.00
Life and work of Gomes, a naval surgeon who served in Brazil from 1798 to 1801,
wrote the first separate medical work published in Brazil and the first work in Portuguese
on dermatology (Ensaio dermosographico, Lisbon, 1820), along with works on tapeworm,
elephantiasis, quinine, fevers, and botany.
130. MADRID, Academia Nacional de Medicina. Catálogo de las obras y
documentos raros y curiosos de su libreria que figuran en la exposicion abierta
para conmemorar el II centenario de su fundacion, 1734-1934. (Madrid: J.
Cosano, 1934). 8°, recent crimson half morocco over marbled boards,
spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt letter, top edge
rouged, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. Partially