Relação cirurgica, e medica, na qual se trata, e declara especialmente hum novo methodo para curar a infecção escorbutica, ou mal de Loanda, e todos os seus productos, fazendo para isso manifestos dous especifioe [sic], e mui particulares remedios.

Lisbon, Na Officina de Manoel Soares, 1741 (i.e., 1752).. 4°, contemporary sheep, spine with raised bands in five compartments, simple gilt ornaments (label missing, chipped at foot of spine, other minor defects). Woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Some browning and light staining, minor worming to lower inner margin of preliminary leaves and first 30 pages, not affecting text. In good condition. Six-line ink inscription dated 1831 on verso of title page, in an elegant but faded (hence nearly illegible) hand. Later pencil notes (with a Borba de Moraes reference) on front free endpaper. (8 ll.), 22 pp., (1 l.), 255 pp. *** Second edition of a very rare work of early Brazilian medicine. The author mentions cures for scurvy that he obtained using his technique in Bahia, not only on inhabitants of Bahia but also on transients from India.There is considerable bibliographic confusion about the first two editions. The licenses state that this is a reprint of a book already in existence; the earliest license is dated 14 December 1751, and the tax statement is dated 24 January 1752. The first edition appeared in Lisbon, 1747, printed by Miguel Rodrigues; its earliest license was dated 7 July 1746, and it bore a tax statement dated 15 February 1748.Cardoso de Miranda also practiced medicine in Minas Geraes and owned a galleon engaged in commerce with Africa.*** Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 572-3: "a famous book … of Brazilian medicine.… The text is seldom studied because of the rarity of … both … editions." Alden & Landis 741/27. Innocêncio III, 338. Barbosa Machado IV, 176. JCB Portuguese and Brazilian Books 752/3. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 186. Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 2787. Santos Filho 42. National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century STC p. 78. Porbase locates two copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at Biblioteca Central da Marinha, without mention of the 22 pp. Jisc repeats Wellcome Library. NUC: RPJCB (also an imperfect copy at DCU-IA); Lisbon, 1747 edition at RPJCB.