An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : books and printed documents, 1557-1821, from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands and manuscripts from the Americas, 1575-1927 / by Robin Price.

  • Price, Robin
Date:
1983
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Credit: An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : books and printed documents, 1557-1821, from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands and manuscripts from the Americas, 1575-1927 / by Robin Price. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    José Frank. Terceira impressäo com os accrescentamentos da segunda impressäo Alemäe, e com as novas annotaçôes do Dr. Luiz Frank. Tirado em linguagem desta nova impressäo, e ampliado com outras annotaçôes por Manoel Joaquim Henriques de Paiva. 2 vols. 8vo. Bahia: M.A. da Silva Serva. 1816. Fac. Med. Lisb. Bib. p.231. Guerra (Brasil.) 42. Silva vi pp. 12-18. As the title-page indicates, the translation follows fairly closely the third edition of M.A. Weikard, Prospetto di un sistema più semplice di medicina, 2 vols., Venice, G.A. Pezzana, 1802, translated into Italian by J. Frank; there are a few minor differences. Much of the text is ultimately a translation of extracts from J. Brown, Elementa medicinae, Edinburgh, C. Elliot, 1780. The notes by J. Frank, son of the well-known Johann Peter Frank, L. Frank (his cousin), and Paiva have been gathered at the end of both volumes of the present edition. This well-known attempt by John Brown [1735-88], first a protégé and later a critic of W. Cullen in Edinburgh, to systematise medicine and medical treatment enjoyed its widest success throughout Europe for only a few years. During this time translations, adaptations, and commentaries and polemical essays on the Brunonian system were issued, and interest in the system was naturally transferred to all the American colonies. Weikard, after filling many official medical positions in the towns of Germany, was appointed court physician to the Empress Catherine of Russia and later to the Tsar Paul I; he wrote several tracts in support of the Brunonian system, but is remembered primarily for his treatise on the philosophy of medicine. M.J.H. de Paiva [1752-1829], doctor of medicine of Coimbra, was professor of philosophy there with occupancy of the chair of pharmacy in Lisbon, Médico da real cámara, deputy of the Real Junta do Proto-Medicato, and member of the Academia das Ciências of Lisbon and many other learned bodies. In 1809, suspected of Jacobinism, he was stripped of his appointments and banished. He retired to Bahia where he remained until his death. Restored to his honours in 1818, he was appointed in 1824 to the chairs of pharmacy, materia medica and therapeutics in Bahia. Among his many printed works he published the Farmacopèa lisbonense, Lisbon, F. da Silva e Azevedo, 1780; many translations principally from J.J. von Plenck, S.A.A.D. Tissot, W. Buchan, and Weikard, and on the Brunonian system; and original treatises on such varied topics as the symptoms of poisoning by therapeutic substances (e.g. snakeroot, lead and mercury), the raising of children,