OBSERVAÇÕES/ SOBRE O/ MELHORAMENTO DOS HOSPITAES/ EM GERAL,

SubTitulo: DEDICADAS AO/ ILLUSTRISSIMO E EXCELLENTISSIMO/ SENHOR/ LUIZ PINTO/ DE/ SOUSA COUTINHO/
Autor: LANGSDORF, JORGE HENRIQUE
Edição: SENHOR DE FERREIROS, E TENDAES, E DA CASA DE Balsemão, Conselheiro, Ministro, e Secretario de Estado dos Negocios Estrangeiros e da Guerra, Grão Cruz da Ordem de Aviz, Cavalleiro da Ordem do Tosão de Ouro &c. &c. &c. Por...
Descrição: Lisboa Na Tipografia da Academia Real das Sciencias. Ano 1800. Enc. da época de lomb. em pele com as capas de brochura; (4) págs+ 2 Tabelas+ 66+ (1) págs.; 23 cm. " Baron Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff was born in Wollenstein (Heiss) in 1774 and died in Freiburg i. Breisgau on June 29, 1852. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Göttingen, (...) He went to Portugal as physician to Prince Christian Waldeck when he latter assumed command of the Portuguese Army. After the death of his protector, he remained in Portugal, as physician to the British troops fighting the Spaniards, and later as a private pactitioner and doctor at the German Hospital. He introduced vaccine in Lisbon, and dedicated himself to the study of natural history. He published - Observações sobre o melhoramento dos hospitaes - in Lisbon in 1800. After his return to Germany in 1802, he joined the Russian expedition which, under the command of Krusenstern (see under this name), sailed around the world. (...)" In - B.M., Bibliografia Brasiliana vol. 2, pág. 456.