The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading

a space for medical science in the 19th century

Resumen

This work presents an analysis on the role of the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of
Reading during the second half of the 19th century regarding the collection and
safekeeping of medical science books. By analyzing the books contained in the 1906
catalog by Ramiz Galvão (consisting of the institution's collection since 1837), we
intend to understand the relative importance of the medical science collection found in
the general collection of the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, and whether it was
updated and relevant amidst the constitution of Brazil's medical science field. It is also
intended to discover the preponderant idiom among its works and at which target
audience they were aimed at, therefore, whether its guard matched the institution's
outline of lusophone culture preservation.