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HENRIQUES (Francisco da Fonseca). MEDICINA Lusitana, Soccorro Delphico, Aos Clamores da Natureza Humana, Para Total Profligação de seus males. Em Amsterdam. 1731. - HENRIQUES (Francisco da Fonseca) MEDICINA Lusitana, Soccorro Delphico, Aos Clamores da Natureza Humana, Para Total Profligação de seus males . Obra Tripartida. Na primeyra parte se trata da Vida do Homem antes de Nacer. Na segunda da Arte de criar, e curar mininos, desde que nacem até serem adultos, e do Methodo Racional para curar a mayor parte dos males, que padecem os homens. A terceyra parte incluo hum tratado de febres. Segunda Impresaó, Correcta, e aumentada pelo seu Author [...]. Com hum Tratado do uso, e Administração do azougue nos casos em que hé prohibido. E com húa Dissertação dos humores naturaes do corpo humano. Em Amsterdam: Em Caza de Miguel Diaz, 1731. [28], 851, [33 de 53] pp.; 320 mm. Second edition, the first being from 1710, of one of the most interesting and important Portuguese medical works of the 18th century. Francisco da Fonseca Henriques (1665–1731), frequently referred to in sources as the “Doctor of Mirandela, ” belongs to the generation of physicians who, during the reign of King John V, sought to establish a “methodical” clinical and therapeutic discourse in a space where university medicine, empirical practice, and the competition of “curious” doctors and traditional folk remedies coexisted. * Medicina Lusitana, Socorro Délfico* is one of his major works and was deliberately written in Portuguese, with the ambition of practical utility and wide circulation, which helps explain its editorial success (with successive editions) and its presence in the libraries of physicians and scholars. The work presents itself as a ”tripartite work”: a first part dedicated to the life of man ”before birth” (matter of generation and pregnancy), a second focused on the upbringing and healing of boys and what the author understands to be a rational method for treating many common ailments, and a third that includes a treatise on fevers. This structure—from prenatal care to childhood and then to general pathology (with special attention to fevers)—makes the volume particularly representative of how practical medicine was organized at the beginning of the 18th century, when daily therapeutic practice was dominated by fevers, ”internal” illnesses, and early childhood care; in passages cited by historiography, the author even discusses home remedies associated, for example, with smallpox, a sign of attention to recurring problems with a great social impact. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Barbosa, v.3, p.148; Inocêncio, v.2, 378