BRANDÃO, Joaquim Ignacio de Seixas Memorias dos annos de 1775. a 1780. para servirem de historia á analysi, e virtudes das Agoas Thermaes da Villa das Caldas da Rainha. Lisbon Regia Officina Typografica 1781
8vo. XXXI pp, (1) f., XIV, 281 pp. Half red morocco.
The Noticia preliminar appears on pp. I to XIV in which the author gives a very interesting description of the town of Caldas da Rainha, the hospital, and the daily life of those visiting the famous spa. The first of the Memorias is a chemical analysis of the water of Caldas, and the second the 'theory of contents' and the author's observations on medical cases. A catalogue of the plants he found at Caldas in the spring of 1780 appears on pp. 258-263. Seixas Brandão was born in Rio de Janeiro, entered the University of Coimbra in 1763, then moved to Montpellier where he took a degree in medicine in 1767. On his return to Portugal he was appointed 'first physician of the Royal Hospital' of Caldas da Rainha. He was also a poet, but this is his only known medical work. With the book-plate of the Marquess of Sligo. A fine copy. Borba de Moraes (l983) II, 119 & Per. Col. p. 67. Sacramento Blake IV, 152. Innocêncio IV, 89.
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