Ramírez, José Antonio (b. c.1760)

Formularium receptarium, in quo formularium medicum chirurgicum Gadicensis, Formularium medicum ad usum Nosocomi, Pharmacopoeja Classica, et Receptarium Alphabeticum ex varis Auctoribus collectum reperiuntur. Produced in Guadalajara, Mexico. In one principal hand, presumably that of Ramírez; in the last section additions in other hands. Note in Spanish on last leaf, of the descent of the MS from Ramírez to his pupil Crisanto de Ocampo and thence to his sons Manuel and Maximo de Ocampo. The manuscript is divided into four sections.

1786-1788

4ll. (1st & 3rd bl.), pp.200 (=192). 20.5 x 15 cm.; Original full leather binding, gold-tooled.; 1 leaf torn; 4ll. (presumably blank) wanting; some pp. misnumbered.

Purchased 1962.

The Hospital Real de San Miguel de Belem of Guadalajara, to which Ramírez was pharmacist after qualifying before the Protomedicato in 1785 [see Protomedicato (1829)], was founded at the instigation of Domingo Arzola, Bishop of Guadalajara, in 1587. After the many vicissitudes recorded in Aguilar (1944), pp. 119-128, in Muriel (1956-60), 1, 257-262, and in WMS/Amer.116, the Hospital was transferred to the Escuela de Medicina of Guadalajara in 1888.

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.

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).