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(MEDICINE). JACOB DE CASTRO SARMENTO Antonius Le Duc, Walter Harris. Dissertationes in novam, tutam, ac utilem methodum inoculationis, seu transplantationis variolarum : prima methodus auctoritate Regiæ Majestatis Brittanicæ comprobata 28. Julii 1721, et publicata cum criticis notis in varios autores de hoc morbo scribentes. pp. 36. Browned. Recent boards. 4to. Geneva, 1727. Jacob (Henrique) de Castro-Sarmento (1691-1762) was born in Bragança, Portugal, studied philosophy at the University of Evora and medicine at the University of Coimbra. In 1720, he relocated to London to escape the Inquisition. He was awarded a medical degree by the University of Aberdeen in 1739 and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in relation to his successful medical research which produced treatises on vaccination, hydrotherapy, surgical instruments and more. Besides his medical writings, Castro-Sarmento authored works of particularly Jewish interest: Exemplar de Penitencia [three discourses for the Day of Atonement] (London 1724); Extraordinaria Providencia [paraphrase in Spanish verse of the Scroll of Esther] (London, 1724); and Sermaõ Funebre [a funeral sermon in memory of Haham David Nieto] (London, 1728).