Mexico, 18th century: anatomy and pharmacology

Tardes anatomicas Escritas ... en el año de 1800 á 24 de Enero. [Followed by:] Farmacopea Quirurgica de Londres .... Traducida del Ingles por ... Casimiro Gomez Ortega .... Madrid MDCCXCVII. En la Imprenta de la Viuda de D. Joaquin Ibarra, con licencia. Produced in Mexico. Two MSS in different hands. Ll. 1-8, Tardes anatómicas; thereafter, Pharmacopea quirúrgica. The first MS., by an author otherwise unknown, is in catechetical form. The second MS copies the translation by C. Gómez Ortega of Pharmacopoeia chirurgica [?by William Houlston (see main Wellcome catalogue of printed books)], 3 ed., London, G.G. & J. Robinson, 1795, published in Madrid in 1797 [Palau 104233]; it adds a translator's preface, a concordance of old and new chemical nomenclature, and an alphabetical list of the remedies described.

c.1800

8ll. (last bl.), 1 l., pp.2, 157 (= 155). 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Original leather and paper binding.

Purchased 1927.

Gómez Ortega [1740-1801] was Alcalde examinador of the Protofarmaceuticato 1780-99, was appointed Boticario mayor and Médico de cámara, and belonged to numerous national and foreign learned Societies. He produced more than 40 scientific, literary and translated works, and was largely responsible for organising the Spanish natural history expeditions to the Americas in the late 18th century. [See Roldán y Guerrero (1956)].

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 León Collection.