7(34 APPENDIX. 



Roteiro. The account of the famous expedition of Vasco da Gama to the 

 Cape (22nd November, 1497), due to one of his companions, Alvaro Yelho. 

 The author enumerates in his remarkable pamphlet (see title at page 496) 

 several spices and drugs of India, stating their prices there and in Alexandria. 

 See also Ileijd, Geschichte des Levantehandels, ii. (1879) 507. 



See pages 404. 496. 



Ruel, or Ruellius, also de la Rouelle, Jean. 1474-1537. Physician 

 atj Sois.sous, lastly canon at Paris. De natura stirpium libri iii. Parisiis, 

 1536. Folio. (See also Scribonius Largus.) 



See Images 31. 388. 



Ruiz, Hipolito. 1754-1816. A Spanish botanist, in 1777 appointed 

 director of the celebrated exploration of Peru and Chile. (See also Pavon.) 

 Sec pages 79. 345. 590. 



Rumphius (Rumpf), Georg Eberhard, 1627-1702. Dutch governor of 

 Amboina. He figured and described 715 plants of that island in the Her- 

 barium amboinense, 7 vols., Amstelodami, 174M755, folio, 696 plates. 



See pages 130. 189. 211. 278. 297. 336. 421. 565, 600. 673. 726. 749. 



Saladinus, of Ascoli (probably Ascoli di Satiano in the Capitanata, 

 Apulia), physician to one of the Princes of Tarentum (and apparently also to 

 the grand constable of Naples, Prince Giovanni Antonio de Balzo Ursine). 

 He IS the author of the "- Comjyendium aromatdriorum Saladini, principis tarenti 

 dignissmu medici, diligenter correctum et emendatum. Impressum in almo 

 studio Bon(miensi, 1488 ;" 4^ 58 pages. Further on, the author calls himself 

 Dominus Saladinus de Esculo, Serenitatis Principis Tarenti phisicus princi- 

 palis. At the end of his pamphlet he gives the list of drugs " communiter 



necessariisetusitatisinqualibetarowia^arm vel «/JO^Aeca." .... This book 

 intended for the druggists, aromatarii, was written between A.D. 1442 and 

 1458, as shown by Hanbury, Science Papers, 358. 



Seepages 148. 183. 225. 377. 388. 456. 582. bd>b. 600. 



Salerno, the school of medicine. During the middle ages, from about 

 the 9th century, there were flourishing in the said Italian town a large number 

 of distinguished medical practitioners and teachers. It is one of their merits 

 to have transmitted the medical art and knowledge of the Arabs to mediaeval 

 Europe.— See nho AlpkUa, Constantinus Africanus, Platearius, Nicolaus Prmpo- 

 situs. That once famous institution continued an obscure existence evendown 

 to the year 1811, when it was suppressed, November 29th, by order of 

 Napoleon.— See images 31. 225. 321. 334. 377. 690. 



Sanudo, Marino, a well informed Venetian writer, author of (1) Vite 

 de cZwc/a di Vemzia, in Muratori, Scriptores rerum itaiicarum xxii. (Mediolaui, 

 n 33) 954 et seq. (2) Marinus Sanutus dictus Torsellus Patricius Yenetus, 

 Liber Stcretorum fidelium crucis super terr^ sanctre recuperatione et conserva- 

 tione m Onentalis Histori.^, torn ii. (Hanovije, 1611) 22; lib. i. part i. 

 cap. 1. The latter work contains, at page 23, a classified list of eastern drugs ; 

 among the most valuable spices, Sanudo mentions cloves, cubebs, mace, nut- 

 megs, spikenard ; among those less costly, cinnamon, eini^er, olibanum, pepper. 



See pages 245. 636. ' *= o . 'i' i^ 



Scribonius Largus, a Eoman physician of the first century of our era. 



lie accompanied, m A.D. 43, the emperor Claudius when he attempted the 



11? ''?^f^''^ ^^ ^^^^ island of Britain. Scribonius is the author of the 



^aluabie book, Compositiojies Medlcamentorum seu Compositiones medicse, the 



earliest edition of which is due to Euel, Paris, 1529 



See pages 6. .3.5. 42. 147. 179. 219. 245. 331. 493. 503. 



