Description: Significant discourse written by the "father of American medicine”, José Hipólito Unanue, for the inauguration of the first Anatomical Theater of the Americas. Precious Peruvian imprint transcribing the remarkable speech delivered at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. Rare and important publication for the history of medicine in the New World. Author: Unanue, José Hipólito (1755-1833).Title: Decadencia y Restauracion del Perú. Oracion inaugural que para la abertura y estrena del Anfiteatro Anatómico dixo en la Real Universidad de San Marcos el dia 21 de Noviembre de 1792, en presencia del Excmo. Señor Virrey de estos Reynos, El Doct. Don Joseph Hipólito Unanue, Catedrático de Anatomia, y Secretario de la Socie-dad Académica de Amantes del Pais de Lima.Published: Impresa en Lima, en la Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos. Año de 1793.Physical: 8º (20 x 13 cm); [2], 42 pp.Complete. Some pages incorrectly numbered as issued—corrected above each in pencil. Leather binding, gilt tooling and lettering, marbled hand painted endpapers.A couple of leaves reinforced at inner edges., other minor imperfections. Very good condition.References:Sabin 97712.Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán. Hipólito Unanue, el padre de la medicina americana. Lima, Biblioteca de la Reforma Médica, 1925.Víctor Peralta Ruiz. "José Hipólito Unanue y Pavón". Real Academia de la Historia: José Hipólito Unanue y Pavóndbe.rah.es
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Lima
Language: Spanish
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: José Hipólito Unanue
Region: South America
Publisher: Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos
Topic: Medicine
Subject: History of Medicine in Americas
Year Printed: 1793
Original/Facsimile: Original