Salgado, Marcos José (1671-1740)

Cursus medicus mexicanus, iuxta sanguinis circulationem, alia que recentiorum inve[n]ta, In compendium redactus. A D.D.D. Antonio Iosepho De Gamboa, et Riaño. Produced in Mexico. A summary of both the Pars prima physiologica of Salgado's well-known textbook for students published in Mexico in 1727 containing the first two tractates, as well as of the second part containing the third and fourth tractates on pathology and fermentation, seemingly unpublished; and, apart from this manuscript, otherwise unknown. However, the sub-headings throughout Gamboa's summary refer to folio numbers which in the first two tractates refer accurately to the printed version. Some pre-publication printed version of the third and fourth tractates may therefore have existed, though it is noted in none of the standard bibliographies, nor in Izquierdo (1934, 1937).

c.1730

6 ll. (1st bl.), pp.234, 2 bl. ll. 15 x 10cm. Original full calf binding with clasps, gold-tooled; in modern slip-case.

Purchased 1962.

Born in 1710 in Cartagena de Indias and receiving his medical doctorate from the University of Mexico in 1740, Gamboa is likely to have been a student of Salgado.

At Wellcome Collection: see Salgado's published 'Cursus medicus mexicanus...' (1727) (Collection: Request EPB American; Shelfmark: M.190) and its catalogue description in Robin Price, 'An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine' (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.