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6. ‘Herbarium’ of Leonhard Fuchs appeared first in Latin 
in 1542, followed by a German edition the next year under 
the title New Kreuterbuch. Fuchs was a contemporary of 
Brunfels and Bock and was in great demand as a physician 
and teacher. Part of his professional reputation was based 
upon his successful treatment of an epidemic which swept over 
Germany in 1529, and a little book of medical instruction and 
prayers against the plague, published in London fifty years 
later, was supposed to have embodied the practice of Fuchs. 
The woodeuts of Fuchs’ herbal are accurate and of great 
beauty. Indian corn and the pumpkin are here illustrated for 
the first time. 
7. Historia plantarum of Conrad Gesner, 1541. Gesner 
wrote on medicine, mineralogy, zoology, and botany, as well as 
linguistic subjects, but up to the time of his death had pub- 
lished little. He founded a new school of botanical illustra- 
tion, collecting some 1500 drawings notable for the great de- 
tail of flower and fruit structure as well as natural habit of 
the plant depicted. These were not published until 150 years 
after his death. 
8. ‘‘HHerbarium’’ of Matthiolus, 1554. The suceess of this 
work was phenomenal, some 32,000 copies of the earlier edi- 
tions being sold. Later editions are notable for the large and 
beautiful illustrations contained. 
9. Simplicium medicamentorum, by Nicholaus Monardes, 
1575. Monardes was a Spanish physician and his work is 
chietly an account of plants brought from the West Indies. 
In the edition which was translated into English in 1577, his 
sub-title reads: ‘‘Joyfull newes out of the newe found world.”’ 
Among other things he gives a long account of the virtue of 
the tobacco plant. 
10. The herball or generall historte of plants of John 
Gerarde, 1597. Gerarde aimed at conveying information in 
simple language, as, for instance, he speaks of a preparation 
being ‘‘squirted into the eyes.’’ He apologizes for the collo- 
quialism, explaining that he does not wish to be ‘‘overeloquent 
among gentlewomen, unto whom especially my works are most 
necessary.”’ 
