1484 VELASCUS DE TARENTA (VALESCO,VALASCUS) (1382 – 1426)
Practica quae alias Philonium dicitur.
A general treatise on medical practice. ISTC No. iv00005800
GMN 12651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14894
1623 ABREU, Aleixo de (1568 – 1630)
Tratado de las siete enfermedades, de la inflammacion universal del higado, zirbo, pyloron, y riñones, y de la obstrucion, de la satiriasi, de la terciana y febre maligna, y passion hipocondriaca. Lleva otros tres tratados, del mal de Loanda, del guzano, y de las fuentes y sedales.
The first important work on tropical diseases. Only six copies of the original edition of this book are known. It includes full accounts of malaria, typhoid, and scurvy, and the first accurate descriptions of yellow f…
GMN 2262.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2808
1694 ROSA, João Ferreira da (Ferreyra da Rosa)
Trattado unico da constituiçam pestilencial de Pernambuco, offerecido a ElRey N.S. por ser servido ordenar por seu Governador aos Medicos da America, que assistem aonde ha este contagio, que o compusessem para se conferirem pelos Coripheos da Medicina aos dictames com que he trattada esta pestilencial febre.
The first scientific description of yellow fever in Brazil by the first European physician to treat the disease in Brazil, and perhaps in all of Latin America. It includes the description of the first autopsy of a yel…
GMN 8930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11108
1726 HENRIQUES, Francisco da Fonseca (1655 – 1731)
Aquilegio medicinal em que se dá noticia das agoas de caldas, de fontes, rios, poços, lagoas, e cisternas, do Reyno de Portugal, e dos Algarves, que ou pelas virtudes medicinaes, que tem, ou por outra alguma singularidade, são dignas de particular memoria.
The first inventory of Portuguese hot springs, fountains, rivers, wells, lakes and reservoirs reputed to have medicinal properties, including some with allegedly supernatural powers of healing. For the 337 entries, Fo…
GMN 9073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11252
1739 SANTUCCI, Bernardo (1701 – 1764)
Anatomia do corpo humano, recopilada com doutrinas medicas, chimicas, filosoficas, mathematicas, com indices, e estampas, representantes todas as partes do corpo humano.
The first textbook of anatomy published by a Portuguese author in Portuguese. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15411
1758 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); LÖFLING, Pehr (1729 – 1756)
Petri Loefling... Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America förrättad infrän år 1751 til år, 1756, med Beskrifningar och ron öfver de märkvärdigaste växyer, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus.
Edited by Carl Linnaeus after the early death of Pehr Löfling, who Linnaeus considered his most gifted disciple. This is the account of Löfling's mostly botanically oriented researches through Spain, Portugal, and nor…
GMN 13545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15822
1788 MATTOS, Manoel de Sá
Bibliotheca elementar chirurgico-anatomica, ou compendio historico-critico, e chronologico sobre a cirurgia e anatomia em geral, que contém os seus principios, incrementos e ultimo estado, assim em Portugal, como nas mais partes cultas do mundo; com a especificação de seus respectivos auctores, suas obras, vidas, methodos e inventos, desde os primeiros seculos até o presente ….
The first bibliography of historical medical literature in Portuguese. The preliminary leaves evaluate the status of medical history and bibliography. Part 1 describes the history of medicine to 1600; part 2, its hist…
GMN 10106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12295
1793 SANTA ANNA, Joaquim José de [Santana] (1720 – 1782)
Elementos de cirurgia ocular offerecidos a Sua Alteza Real o Senhor D. João Principe do Brazil.
The first Portuguese book on ophthalmology. Santa Ana was the first Portuguese physician to specialize in ophthalmology. "He acknowledges (pp. vii-viii) that the section of the Elementos on anatomy and physiology is a…
GMN 9074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11253
1794 FRANCO, Francisco de Mello (1757 – 1822)
Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde, feita a todos os senhores confessores e directores, sobre o modo de proceder com seus penitentes na emenda dos peccados, principalmente da lascivia, colera, e bebedice.
The first Portuguese work on psychosomatic medicine. The author was a Brazilian who worked in Portugal. Digital facsimile from Wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
GMN 11782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13983
1809 –1840 HOFFMANNSEGG (HOFFMANSEGG), Johann Centurius Graf von (1766 – 1849)
Flore portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal. 2 vols.
The most spectacular illustrated book on the flora of Portugal. The delicate illustrations, mostly stipple-engraved and colored by hand, based on the travels of Hoffmannsegg through Portugal between 1797 and 1801, wer…
GMN 12798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15044
1810 GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
Ensaio sobre o cinchonino, e sobre sua influencia em a virtude da quina, e de outras cascas.
Gomes obtained a substance, which he named cinchonino, from cinchona bark. That it contained the active principle of cinchona was later proved by Pelletier and Caventou. For an English translation of the paper, see Ed…
GMN 1840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2272
1815 MACGRIGOR, Sir James (1771 – 1858)
Sketch of the medical history of the British Armies in the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, during the late campaigns.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13001
1820 GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
Ensaio dermosographico ou Succinta e systematica descripção das doenças cutaneas, conforme os principios e observações dos doutores Willan, e Bateman, com indicacão dos respectivos remedios aconselhados por estes celebres authores, e alguns outros.
The first book on dermatology published in Portuguese. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11251
1841 CRUZ, Francisco Ignacio dos Santos (1787 – 1859)
Da prostituição na cidade de Lisboa; ou considerações historicas, hygienicas e administrativas em geral sobre as prostitutas, e em especial na referida cidade: com a exposição da legislação portugueza a seo respeito, e proposta de medidas regulamentares, necessarias para a manutenção da saude publica, e da moral.
In this comprehensive study of prostitution in Lisbon Cruz analyzed the history of prostitution in Portugal and compared it to the practice in Japan, India, Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a number of moder…
GMN 9063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11242
1843 CRUZ, Francisco Ignacio dos Santos (1787 – 1859)
Ensaio sobre a topographia medica de Lisboa. ou consideraçoens especiaes relativas a' sua historia; meteorologia; geognosia; agoas potaveis; zoologia, quanto aos animaes mais utei, e em quanto ao homem sua parte hygienica e medica; a população, e suas respectivas observaçoens, &c.
GMN 10234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12424
1851 GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
Catalogus plantarum horti botanici medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII.
Lists 1,863 plants in the botanical garden at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica of Lisbon, arranged by genus and species according to Decandolle’s classification. The authors note in which part of Europe, India, the America…
GMN 9068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11247
1853 FRANCIS, D. J. T.
Change of climate considered as a remedy in dyspetic, pulmonary, and other chronic affections; with an account of the most eligible places of residence for invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, etc., at different seasons of the year; and an appendix on the mineral springs of the Pyrenees, Vichy, and Aix les Bains.
The author, a pulmonary specialist at Cavendish Square, London, provides a detailed manual for invalid travellers, seeking cures for tuberculosis, and indigestion and "nervous affections." It may be one of the first t…
GMN 10235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12425
1858 RODRIGUES DE GUSMÃO, Francisco Antonio
Memorias biographicas dos medicos e cirurgiões Portuguezes, que no presente seculo se teem feito conhecidos por sous escriptos.
GMN 13500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15775
1899 LEMOS, Maximiano Augusto d’Oliviera (1860 – 1923)
História da medicina em Portugal. 2 vols.
GMN 6577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8291
1910 PIRES DE LIMA, Joaquim Alberto (1877 – 1951)
Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)
GMN 8947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11126
1929 SANTOS, Reynaldo dos (1880 – 1970); ET AL
L’artériographie des membres de l’aorte et de ses branches abdominales.
Aortography. With A. C. Lamas and J. Pereira Caldas. Also published in Bull. Soc.méd.chir. Paris, 1929, 55,587-601.
GMN 2859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3656
1931 SANTOS, Reynaldo dos (1880 – 1970); CALDAS, Jose Guilherme Mendes Pereira
Les dérivés du thorium dans l’artériographie des membres.
Thorotrast first used in arteriography.
GMN 2920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4909
1942 ATHIAS, Mark
Catálogo das obras da colecção portuguesa anteriores a fundação das Regias Escolas de Cirurgia (1825). 2 vols.
(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)
GMN 8946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11125
1947 FERREIRA DE MIRA, Matias Boleto (1875 – 1953)
História da medicina portuguesa.
GMN 6579.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8296
1954 FERREIRA DE MIRA, Matias Boleto (1875 – 1953)
História da fIsiologia em Portugal.
GMN 8928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11106
2011 COSTA, Palmira Fontes da; CARDOSO, Adelino
Percursos na história do livro médico, 1450-1800. Edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa and Adelino Cardoso.
GMN 11781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13982
2013 SOUSA, Germano de
História da medicina portuguesa durante a expansão.
A history of medicine in Portugal and its colonies during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
GMN 9065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11244
2018 CAGLE, Hugh
Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.
GMN 11474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13673