Tellez, Guillermo (fl. 1889)

El mal del pinto. [Followed by:] Terapéutico especial. Mexico Signed dedication to Gen. Carlos Pacheco, Ministro de Fomento, (whose support the author had received), p. 5. Téllez, a medical officer in the Mexican army, published his findings on pinta (mal del pinto, pinto) after 8 years of officially-sponsored research in the State of Guerrero. The first part constitutes a copy of his only known published work [Palau 329747]; the second part constitutes his MS additions to it, relating particularly to treatment and prophylaxis. He recognises the syphilitic nature of pinta and advocates treatment with a compound including mercury, iron, arsenic, antimony and bismuth.

1889; c.1890

Pp. 1-44 [printed text]; pp.45-115 (i.e. 116) [MS text]. 23 x 15 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1927.

Formerly part of the León 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).