A Brasilian historian remarked that the Jesuits who learnt the art of medicine in Goa later transferred this experience and were pivotal in creating the Brasil of today.
BC The *Collection of various recipes of unique secrets from the most important pharmacies of our Society in Portugal, India, Macao, and Brazil, 1766, *also known as *Opp. NN. 17* is a Jesuit manuscript of medical recipes today housed in the Archivum Romanus Societatis Iesu <http://www.sjweb.info/arsi/> (ARSI), the central Jesuit archive in Rome. Of interest to scholars of the Society of Jesus and to historians of colonial medicine alike, the 603-page compilation of recipes offers scholars a glimpse into the process of gathering medicinal knowledge from local healers in missionary settings, and then disseminating it via a systematized volume of indexed recipes for the Jesuit?s Portuguese-speaking unit. Among the highlights of the collection are its various recipes for compounding *theriacs*, medicaments against snake-bites and other poisons.