Sustos da vida nos perigos da cura, ou Carta, que hum amigo escreveo a outro, estando convalescendo, depois de huma enfermidade
Publisher: Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, impressor do Santo Officio.
Published: 1756
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Medical personnel; Physicians; Malpractice; Medicine; Pharmacists; Surgeons; Quacks and quackery
Other titles: Sustos da vida nos perigos da cura.; Carta, que hum amigo escreveo a outro, estando convalescendo, depois de huma enfermidade.
Notes: Signed on p. 19: José Acursio de Tavares.

According to NUC Pre-1956 and Silva, this anonymously printed work was written by Bento Morganti, a secular priest at the basilica of Santa Maria de Lisboa with a degree in canon law from the Universidade de Coimbra; he had been born in Rome to an Italian father and a Portuguese mother.

This work is a diatribe against physicians, surgeons, and pharmacists, and includes detailed examples of their incompetence; there is an example on p. 11-12 of one Manoel Tavares Coutinho, who travelled to Brazil as a lawyer and returned with the title of chief physician of Minas Geraes; according to the author, when this man was asked about his qualifications, he had stated that he had been given good recipes for all sorts of ailments, and when he had to treat a patient he would just try them in order.

Signatures: *¹⁰ (*1, *10 versos blank)

Engraved initial.

Silva, I.F. da. Diccionário bibliográphico portuguez, I: p. 350.

Short title catalogue of eighteenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, p. 313.

John Carter Brown Library copy disbound.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Brewington Fund.