RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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richard c. ramer
in blue pencil on front wrapper). Light browning at beginning and end.
Uncut. Overall good. Rectangular purple stamp on title of Livraria Santos,
Porto. Old paper tag (partially effaced) on wrapper. 87, (1) pp. $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes chapters on the introduction, construction
and use of baths, Turkish vs. Russian baths, the moral implications of such baths, and
the effect of their use on healthy and sick bathers.
The author, a native of Lisbon (1822-1884), had received his medical degree from
the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa. He worked as a physician-surgeon at the Escola
Medica-Cirúrgica de Lisboa, was chief of health services for the Ministry of War, and was
a corresponding member of the Academia Real de Sciencias de Lisboa. In addition to
writing several books, articles and pamphlets, he served as editor of the journal Escoliaste
medico, and collaborated in the Jornal dos facultativos militares.
j Innocêncio XII, 231; IV, 242-3. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção
portuguesa II, 267. Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto
2620. Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 417, 424. Not located in NUC.
Not located in OCLC. Porbase lists without location or collation. Not located in Copac.
137. MARTINEAU, Dr. L. La Prostitution clandestine. Paris: Adrien
Delahave & Emile Lecrosnier, 1885. 8°, original printed wrappers (slightly
soiled). Scattered light spotting. Uncut. Overall good. (2 ll.), 216 pp.
$100.00
FIRST EDITION of this psychological, social and medical study of prostitution, with
tables and statistics, by a doctor at the Lourcine Hospital who specialized in obstetrics
and gynecology.
j NUC: ICJ, PU, PPC, DNLM.
138. MATA [Y FONTANET], Pedro. Importancia de la medicina legal, y
necesidad de su estudio. Discurso inaugural lido en la Facultad de Ciencias
Médicas de Madrid el dia 2 de octubre de 1844. Madrid: Establecimiento
Artístico-Literario de Manini y Compañia, 1844. 8°, stitched. Small
wood-engraved vignette on title page. Title-page stained. Short tear
and small hole in final leaf, without loss. Lower outer corner of first 16
pages slightly nibbled. Uncut and unopened. A good or almost good
copy. Oval white paper tag with blue border and manuscript numeration
in upper inner corner of title-page. 39 pp. $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION (?) of what is probably one of the earlier works on
forensic medicine in Spanish. Mata cites with admiration the works of Zachias, Belloc,
Foderé and Capuron (p. 53). The paper was read before the Faculdad de Ciencias Médicas,
Madrid, on October 2, 1844.
j Palau 157775. See Agustín Sebastián Iranzo, “La labor médico-legal del doctor
Pedro Mata” in Medicamenta, XXXVI, 372: 232-4 (Madrid 1961). Not located in NUC. OCLC:
24270340; 432617361. CCPBE locates a single copy, at the Real Academia Nacional de