MSAmer78

A scribal copy of the Latin oration delivered at the inauguration of the Protomedicato of Buenos Aires on 17 August 1780 of which Gorman had been appointed President. He points out the importance of establishing the institution and indicates the antiquity and honour of the medical profession from remote classical times. [See Canton (1921), 1, pp. 201-234, on the early history of the Protomedicato in Buenos Aires; and see A.2 for references to Gorman's life].

Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, 1780

Material: paper; 2211. (11. 20 and 21 bl.).; cm dimensions: width 20.5 cm, length 15 cm

Purchased 1962.