Noticias do que he o achaque do bicho
Subtitle: diffiniçam do seu crestame[n]to, subimento corrupçaõ, sinaes, & cura atè, o quinto grao, ou intensaõ delle, suas differenças, & co[m]plicaçoẽs, com que se ajunta
By: Por Miguel Dias Pimenta, familiar do S. Officio, & residente no Arrecife de Pernambuco
Publisher: Na Officina de Miguel Manescal, impressor do Santo Officio.
Published: 1707
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 175
Notes: The author started his life as a shopboy and became a prosperous merchant. It seems that he earned considerable sums by buying very cheap slaves who were sick with the "bicho", curing them and selling them at a good profit. He was not a physician, and in the preface he states that he published his book only out of charity. This book is one of the three most important and rarest works on medicine written in Brazil. (Moraes)

Signatures: *⁴ A-L⁸ (*1 verso blank)

Pages 43 and 47 misnumbered 3 and 7 respectively.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 707/125.

Moraes, R.B. de.  Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), p.670.

Silva, I.F. da.  Diccionario bib. portuguez, VI, p.235.

Barbosa Machado, III, p.473.

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

John Carter Brown Library copy has some stains. This copy has manuscript annotations on p. 175.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.