Gracida y Bernal, José Timoteo María de (c.1760-1815)

Accounts, and chemical and pharmacological receipts in Spanish and Latin, interspersed with verses in Spanish. Taxco, Guerrero; & City of Mexico In various hands, some in holograph, and several signed by Gracida, with rúbricas. The chemical receipts include those for making colours, dyes, inks, lacquers, and preparations for gilding different surfaces; the pharmacological receipts are copied from a variety of European sources including JoÜo Curvo Semmedo [1635-1719]:-- l. 1: Accounts for 1782 of Gracida's pharmacy in Taxco. ll. 2-8: Medical receipts copied from JoÜo Curvo Semmedo. ll. 9-25: "Arcana quedam magna, et maxime uttilia", miscellaneous chemical receipts in Latin and Spanish. ll. 26-51: "Apuntes de varias medicinas particulares". ll. 52-53: "Canto funebre" on the death of the son of the Conde de Santiago. ll. 54-56: Minor accounts for 1816; and accounts for 1807 for the rancho of Batansito. l. 57: Accounts for 1808-14 of fees received by Gracida for examinations conducted in his capacity as a member of the Protomedicato. ll. 58-67: Miscellaneous accounts and notes for 1782-1815, some relating to the rancho of Batansito.

1782-1821

67 ll. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. The papers are loose, or loosely bound in the original leather wrapper with further annotations on the pasted-down end-papers; some leaves are heavily stained.

Purchased 1962.

Born in Oaxaca, Gracida received his medical doctorate from the University of Mexico in 1784, and in 1789 won the chair of anatomy and surgery which he held until 1812 when he became Catedrático de vísperas de medicina. According to 1. 57r of the present MS he took office as Protomédico de gracia in 1808 and as Protomédico decano in 1813. [See Flores (1886-88), 2, p. 100].

At Wellcome Collection: see WMS/Amer.96.

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.