Memoria sobre os prejuisos causados pelas sepulturas dos cadaveres nos templos
Subtitle: e methodo de os prevenir, offerecida a S. alteza real o principe regente nosso senhor
By: por Vicente Coelho de Seabra Silva Telles medico, e lente substituto de zoologia, mineralogia, botanica, e agricultura, na Universidade de Coimbra, e socio da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, etc. ; Publicada por Fr. José Mariano Velloso
Contributors: Velloso, José Mariano da Conceição, 1742-1811
Publisher: Na Offic. da Casa Litteraria do Arco do Cego
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Cremation; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Notes: The author condemns cremations within church buildings because dead bodies give off gases and cause disease; rather he recommends outdoor cremation as is practiced in Asia.

Signatures: A-E⁴

Engraved printer's vignette of royal arms of Portugal on title page.

Silva, I.F. da Bib. portuguez, VII: p. 422.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), II: p. 854.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. brasileira do período colonial, p. 380.

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