APPENDIX. 70;j 



author's son, an " apotiquaire " at St. Denis. Scq Ilanhurys iiuurnchlmi o( 

 the book, Pharm. Jouni. i. (1870) 298. 



See pages 21. 26. 73. 118, 126. 148. 260. 263. 479. 617, 623. 648. 657. 



Porta, Giovanni Battista, 1539(])-1615, a distinguished Napolitan nohle- 

 man. Of his remarkable works we have before us— 7>e diatilhffi . h'h. ix. 

 Eom<ie 1608, 154 pp. It is partly contained also in Portu's Mni^ia- nuluralis 

 Hbri XX, 1589, yet not in the earlier editions of tlie Magia, tlju lirst of wldcli 

 appeared in 1558. Another work of the same author, the rhytoipiomira^ 

 Naples, 1583, may be mentioned as one of the chief works fronting on thi- 

 "Doctrine of Signatures." There are several editions of it, usually containinf 

 the curious %ures of the tubers of orchids as especially conucctcd with that 

 superstitious doctrine. 



See pages 118. 263. 385. 479. 526. 580. 653. 655. 



Praepositus, Nicolaus, one of the eminent physicians of the MjooI of 

 Salerno (see S.) living in the first half of the 12th century. He givt-s in his 

 Antidotarium, first edition, Venetiis 1471, the composition of about 150 

 medicines, which were much used, under his name, during the followin.e 

 centuries. They are enumerated in Choulant's book, mentioned p. 751 befun*. 



Pun-tsao, a great Chinese herbal, written by Le'she-cldn, in the middle 

 of the 16th century. It consists of 40 thin octavo volumes, the first tlircc of 

 which contain about 1,100 woodcuts. For more exact information coJisult 

 Hanlury, Science Papers, 212 et seq. 



See pages 4. 76. 83. 167. 510. 520. 



Ramusio, Giovanni Battista.— Terza cditione dellc navigationi e vi";"n 

 raccolti gik da G. B. Ramusio, 3 vol. fol. Yenetia, 1554. A valuable collcrtion 

 of accounts of medieval travellers, chiefly Italian. 

 . See page 4. 



Ray (Wray, or Eajus) John, 16284705, a clergjmian and distingm'shcd 

 botanist His Herbarium is preserved in the British Museum, lli-^t^na 

 plantarum, 3 vols., folio, London, 1686-1704. 



See pages 254. 277. 481. 482. 615. 731. 740. 



Redi, Francesco, a physician of Arezzo, who lived at Flor.-ncp 

 Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali e particularmente a quelle ciie 

 portate delF India. Firenze, 1671. 



See pages 24. 111. 287. t • • i, 



^ Rhazes (Abu Bekr Muhammad ben ^^^^^''^^ ^"^'i^^ J^^^^^ 

 Persian province Chorassan, where he was a physician to the hospitai ana 



subsequently at Bagdad; died A.l). 923 or S)32, 



See pages 3. 271. ^93. 642. 716. irn n i 1 



Rheede tot Draak^estein, Hendrik Adriaan '-^"^^ ,^lf''^^^^^^ 



governor of Malabar. He ordered the tnost conspicuous plants of nd^^^^^^ ^ 



figured and to be described, mostly by Jan ^r^'^^tdi^ljS^ 

 Amsterdam. This -reat and valuable work is the Harm vidicus 



12 vols, folio, Amstelodami 1678-1703, with ^9^ P]^^^^.. .^. .^^ 677 726. 



See pages 130. 189. 211. 297. 403. 421. 425. 547. MO. ^f^'' 

 ^^ Ricettario Fiorentino; one of the eaijest if n<J,the^^ 

 ^harmacopcfiia published by authority. It bears ^ ;/e • -i . 



deU' arte, e di medicina del coliegio Fiorentmo f,,f '^^^^^fi/'Sve l.ve 



Consoli della universita delli ^r^<^i-lS f-F^^^^^^ ^tamperia dei 



Referred to the edition of 1567, prm ed at ^f "%;^ Pharmacopa'ia 

 <"^iunti 1574." There are other editions of that Flortntmt i 



*iown to the year 1696. 

 See pages 40. 410. 706. 



