SODRÉ, Antonio Martins (Antonio DOS MÁRTIRES).
Collectaneo pharmaceutico divido em duas partes, nas quaes se acharáõ as melhores perguntas, e respostas, e algumas eleiçoens de simples, com suas explicaçoens ao texto de Mesue, tiradas dos melhores autores antigos, e modernos da arte pharmaceutica. Obra utilissima para se examinarem os novos professores da mesma arte.
Porto, Antonio Alves Ribeiro Guimaraens, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine. [32], 188, [4 blank] pp.
€ 3,500
Very rare second edition of a Portuguese textbook on pharmacology, written as a series of questions and answers to prepare students in medicine for their examinations, first published in Coimbra in 1735. The first part of the book is mainly concerned with general knowledge which the students have to know. The second part of the book consists of questions and answers on the work of the Syrian physician Masawaih al-Mardini (d. 1015) in Bagdad and Cairo, better known in the West as Mesue the younger, the most important author for students of pharmacology. The book ends with explanations of various passages from the work of Mesue, in Latin, since the student would have read him in that language.
With annotations on the second front endleaf and the title-page. Browned throughout, with a water stain on the lower corner of pp. 129-160 and a hole in the second front endleaf. Blake, p. 290; Porbase (1 copy); WorldCat 77818650 & 14335394 (1 copy).
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