Pharmacographia : a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger, and Daniel Hanbury.

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1879
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    Batouta, toxte arabe accompagne d’une traduction par C. Defr6merie et B. R. Sanguinetti. 2 vols. Paris. 1853-1854. See pages 404. 511. 521. 577. 669. 672. Bauhin, Caspar, 1560-1624, professor of anatomy and botany in the University of Basel. See Hess, J. W. Kaspar Bauhin’s Leben und Clia- rakter. Basel, 1860. 72 pages.—Pinax theatri botanici. Basilese, 1623. See pages 31. 86. 388. 429. 439. 731. 740. Belon, Pierre, 1517-1564, called Belon “ du Mans,” with reference to his native country near Le Mans, in the ancient province of Maine, France. He travelled in the Levant from 1546 to 1549, and wrote Les observations de plvsievrs singvlaritez et choses memorables, trounces en Grece, Asie, Iudee, Egypte, Arabie, et autres pays estranges. Paris, 1553. See pages 175. 222. 254. 598. 615. Benedictus Crispus (Benedetto Crespo), A.D. 681, Archbishop of Milan, died in 725 or 735.—Commentarium medicinale, ed. by Ullrich, 1835, a small pamphlet consisting of 241 verses, in which a few drugs are alluded to. See pages 282. 463. 493. Bock—See Tragus. Brunfels, Otto, 1488-1534, originally a Carthusian friar, then a school- master at Strassburg, author of several pamphlets against Catholicism ; doctor of medicine, and lastly physician to the republic of Bern. His great work—Herbarum vivae eicones, etc., 3 vol., Strassburg, 1530, 1531, 1536, con- taining 229 partly excellent woodcuts of plants occurring near Strassburg—is the earliest instance of good botanical figures.—See Fliickiger, Otto Brunfels, in the Archiv cler Pharmacie, vol. 212 (1878) 493-514. See pages 170. 388. 439. 694. Brunschwyg, Hieronymus, a surgeon living at Strassburg apparently towards the end of the 15th century. His “ Liber de arte distiUandi de sim- plicibus, Das buch der rechten kunst zu distilieren . . . .” Strassburg, 1500, with figures, was subsequently brought out in numerous editions and translations. In English: The noble handy work of surgery and of destination. Southwark, 1525, fol., and The vertuose boke of distillacyon of the waters of all manner of herbes, translate out of duyche. London, 1527, fol.—See Choulant, Graphische Incunabeln ftir Naturgeschichte und Medicin, 1858-75. See pages 170. 456. Camellus or Camelli—See Kamel. Camerarius, Joachim, 1534-1598, physician at Nurnberg. Ilortus medi- cus et philosophicus. Francofurti, 1588. See Irmisch, Uber einige Botaniker des 16ten Jahrhunderts. Sondershausen, 1862, 4°. p. 39. See pages 384. 390. 474. Cato, Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius, 234-149 B.c. In the book Be re rustica, the earliest agricultural work in Roman literature, Cato treats of many useful plants, the complete list of which will be found in Meyer’s Geschichte der Botanik, i. 342. We have usually referred to .Bisard’s edition in “Les Agronomes latins,” Paris, 1877. See pages 172. 245. 269. 289. 329. 627. Celsus, Aulus Cornelius ; about 25 B.C. to A.D. 50.—A. Cornelii Celsi de medicina libri octo, ed. C. Daremberg. Lipsise, 1859. The list of useful plants mentioned by him will be found in Meyer’s Geschichte der Botanik, ii. 17.—See pages 35. 43. 179. 234. 291. 439. 493. 677. 680.