Scarce 18th century publication concerning academic curriculum for students of medicine and anatomy at St. Thomas Aquinas University (Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino), in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, present day Dominican Republic. 

The work transcribes a 1758 letter from Doctor Francisco Pujol providing authors and works that should be used by the students.  

Pujol, Francisco. Carta, que Don Francisco Pujol, Doct. en Medicina, ravalidado por el Real Proho-Mediato de Castilla, agregado al de Portugal, Socio Physico-Medico de la Regia Sociedad de Ciencias de Sevilla, Academico de la Reales Academías Medico-Matritense, y Portopolitana, escribe à la Regia, y Pontificia Universidad de Sto. Thomàs de Aquino, fundada en el Convento Imperial del Sagrado Orden de Predicadores, en la Isla de Santo Domingo, Cabeza de las Lucayas. [written in Cadiz, 1758].

8 pp., 21 cm; dated and signed in print (p. 8): “Cadiz, y junio 2 de 1758”; complete and in very good condition despite minor stains; posterior synthetic brown leather binding, red label on front cover with gilt lettering in Portuguese reading "Carta de 1758 á ilha São Domingos".

NOTE: 

Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino, founded by Pope Paul III in 1538, is the earliest institution of higher education in the Americas.  The university was under the jurisdiction of the Dominicans.  

The author, Don Francisco Pujól, was a renowned 18th century Spanish physician who graduated in Santo Domingo.