Um fragmento da história da epidemia, que, sob o nome de cólera-morbus asiática, havendo percorrido o Asia e a maior parte da Europa, chegou a Portugal no corrente anno de 1833.

[Colophon] Lisbon, Na Imprensa Nacional, 1834.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary blue wrappers, text block edges tinted yellow. Caption title. Clean and crisp. In fine to very fine condition. 44 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this description of the outbreak of cholera in Portugal in 1833, including its spread, government actions taken to curb it, and newspaper reports. Perhaps most interesting is the detailed report of an autopsy performed in Portugal on a cholera victim (pp. 12-17). The first appendix is a report of a microscopic examination of water tainted with cholera. The second is an annotated bibliography of Portuguese works on the 1833 epidemic.Lima Leitão (1787-1856), a major figure in Portuguese medicine, was born in Lagos (Algarve) and served as a physician with the French and the Portuguese armies from 1808 to 1814, before moving to Brazil. In 1816 he was sent from Rio de Janeiro to Mozambique, where he was chief physician, and from there in 1819 to India, to act as Intendente de Agricultura. Lima Leitão was a professor at the Royal School of Surgery in Lisbon, president of the Lisbon Society of Medical Sciences, and an active contributor to the Portuguese medical press. He served twice in the Cortes and published numerous works on medicine and politics, as well as some poetry and a translation of Virgil. *** Innocêncio I, 169. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, or Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto, both of which list other works by the author. Not in Wellcome. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. NUC: DNLM (giving publication date as 1833).