Author: SANTA ANNA, JOAQUIM JOSÉ DE
Title: Elementos de Cirurgia Ocular offerecidos a sua Alteza Real O Senhor D. Joao Principe do Brazil.
Description: Lisboa, Na Officina de Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1793. In 4to. W. woodc. device on title and 3 engr. fold. pls. (plate 1 signed 'Gueiroz Sculp.' after Silva). Contemp. full clf., spine in compartments, gilt. Red title shield, gilt. (Spine ends rubb., lower cover some scratching, 1 corner of upper cover badly rubb.). (VIII, 279, I (blank) pp. (pp. 275 - 279 index). (Paste downs a few wormh.; pls. and last 40 lvs. a few unimportant pinhole wormh.). Becker Coll. 323: 'Often described as the first Portuguese textbook of ophthalmology, this treatise was not an original work but rather an acknowledged translation of two standard works on the eye. In the foreword Santa Anna states that the sections on the anatomy and physiology of the eye were taken from Deshais-Gendron's treatise (101) [Traite des maladies des yeux, 1770] and those on pathology and therapy from Plenk's text (299) [Doctrina de morbis oculorum, 1777]... first fully recognized by Julius Hirschberg ...': Albert a.o., Source Book, item 2006: 'Santa Anna, of Lisbon, Portugal, was an ophthalmologist to the Royal Hospital of San José, and to the court. He is known solely as the author of the work listed here.': Hirschberg, para 971: Blake, p. 400:

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