Constancio, Manoel (1725-1817)

Anatomia amais correcta, extraida dos melhores authores anathomicos, deduzida a maneira de dialogo, e ditada aos Estudentes desta Sciencia no Real Hospital de S. Jozé ... Tomo 1° da Ostheologia. Title within pen-drawn ornamental panel; at the end a pen-drawn tail-piece. This MS. contains notes of Constancio's lectures, by an unnamed student, whose name is perhaps J. Pinho, which is found on the verso of the last leaf. Produced in Lisbon.

1782

1 volume 6 ll. last bl.. + 83 pp. + 102 pp. + 3 ll. 8vo. 161/2 x 101/2 cm. Original mottled calf binding, rebacked.

Purchased 1913.

Manoel Constancio was the father of Franciso Solano Constancio (1777-1846), the author of MS.1782. He was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery at the Hospital de Todos os Santos in Lisbon in 1764, a post which he held for over forty years. He was responsible for many reforms in Portuguese medical and surgical education.

At Wellcome Collection: MS.1782 is by Constancio's son, Franciso Solano Constancio (1777-1846).

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

An earlier copy of this MS., dated 1780, is entered in the 'Catalogo das obras de Colecçâo portuguesa anteriores a...1825' published by the Library of the Faculdade de Medecina de Lisboa in 1942.