7">2 APPENDIX, 



Acosta, CIirist6bal, physician at Burgos ; he travelled in the east and 

 visited Mosambique and Cochin; died A.D. 1580. — :Z^rrtc^a(io de las Drogas y 

 medicinas de las Indias Orientales con sus Plantas debuxadas al biuvo per 

 Christoual 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 " dind 

 *' De medicameiitorurti compositione." Both these works were repeatedly 

 printed during the 16th century; wo are not aware of any recent editions. 



See pages 222. 263. 



i^gineta— See Paulos. 



Aetius of Amida, now Diarbekir, on the upper Tigris. He wrote, pro- 

 bably about A.D. 540-550, Aetii medici grseci ex veteribus medicinse Tetra- 

 hihlos. Basilese, 1542. 



See pages 35. 175. 271. 511, 559. 



Albertus Magnus (Count Albert von BoUstitdt), 11934280, a Domini- 

 can monk. Bishop of Eegensburg (Eatisbon). — Albcrti Magni ex ordine Pr^e- 

 dicatorum De vegetahilibus libri vii., historian naturalis pars xviii. Edit. E. 

 Meyer and C. Jessen. 1867. 



See pages 513. 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. Basilete, 1556, 8vo. — An admirable German translation, 

 together with the Greek original, has been published at Vienna, 2 vols., 

 1878-1879, by Puschmann. 



See pages 6. 222. 281. 325. 388. 493. 529. 595. 680. 



Alexandria, the Eoman 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. 176-180. 

 The complete Hst 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 pkarmacologice . . . epitome codicis 

 manuscripti persici bibl. caes. reg. Vienn, Vindobonae, 1830-1833. 

 Seepages 12. 225. 325. 490. 



Alkindi. Abu Jusuf Jakub 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 m the 13th century, and originally written in French (accord- 

 ing to^ Haser, Geschichte der Medicin, i. 1875, 648 sqq.), Daremberg, La 

 medecme, histoire et doctrine, 1865, attributes the Alphita to Maranchus. 



