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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    Acosta, Christ6bal, physician at Burgos; he travelled in the east and visited Mosambique and Cochin; died A.D. 1580.—Tractado de las Drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales con sus Plantas debuxadas al biuvo por Cliristoual Acosta medico y cirujano que las vio ocularmente. Burgos, 1578. Small 4°, 448 pages (and 38 pages indices). There are translations in Latin by Clusius, 1582 ; in Italian, 1585; in French by Antoine Colin, 1619, etc. See pages 154. 423. 462. 503. 565. Actuarius, Johannes, a physician to the court of Constantinople* towards the end of the 13th century, author of “ Methodus medendi,” and “ De medicamentorum compositions.” Both these works were repeatedly printed during the 16th century; we are not aware of any recent editions. See pages 222. 263. /Egineta—See Paulos. Aetius of Amida, now Diarbeldr, on the upper Tigris. He wrote, pro- bably about A.D. 540-550, Aetii medici graeci ex veteribus medicinse Tetra- biblos. Basileae, 1542. See pages 35. 175. 271. 511. 559. Albertus Magnus (Count Albert von Bollstiidt), 1193-1280, a Domini- can monk, Bishop of Regensburg (Ratisbon).—Alberti Magni ex ordine Prse- dicatorum De veyetabilibus libri vii., historiae naturalis pars xviii. Edit. E. Meyer and C. Jessen. 1867. See pages 543. 568. 678. Alexander Trallianus, of Tralles, now Aidin-Giisilhissar, south-east of Smyrna, an eminent physician who wrote about the middle of the 6th century of our era, possibly at Rome.—Alexandri Tralliani medici libri xii. Edit. Joanne Guintero. Basileae, 1556. Svo.—An admirable German translation, together with the Greek original, has been published at Yienna, 2 vols., 1878-1879, by Puschmann. See pages 6. 222. 281. 325. 388. 493. 529. 595. 680. Alexandria, the Roman custom-house of. In the Pandects of Justinian there is to be found a curious list of eastern drugs and other articles liable to duty at the Roman custom-house in Alex- andria, from the time of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, about A.D. 176-1S0. The complete list is reprinted in Vincent, Commerce of the Ancients, ii. (1807) 698 ; also in Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, ii. (1855) 167. See pages 222. 315. 321. 493. 577. 635. 644. Alhervi. Abu Mansur Movafik ben Ali Alherui, a Persian physician of the 10th century. He compiled a work on medicines and food from Greek, Arabic, and Indian sources, which was published and partly translated by Seligmann: Liber fundamentorum pharmacologice . . . epitome codicis manuscripti persici bibl. caes. reg. Yienn. Vindobonae, 1830-1833. See pages 12. 225. 325. 490. Alkindi. Abu Jusuf Jalcub ben Ishak ben Alsabah Alkindi. He wrote about A.D. 813-841 at Basra and Bagdad, about various subjects of natural philosophy, mathematics, medicine, music. See page 642. Alphita, a curious list of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations, pro- bably compiled in the 13th century, and originally written in French (accord- ing to Haser, Geschichte dor Medicin, i. 1875, 648 sqq.). Daremberg, La m6decine, histone et doctrine, 1865, attributes the Alphita to Maranchus.