To the "Reader. 



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TAbido Jcq^nctts quavnorfus itfufve<immdlinm<venenum relinquentiumftquuntur. A third, Be 

 eorum curationc .Thefe eight books within thefe two Jaft centuries of years haue bin tran* 



dated out of Greeke into Latine. and commenrrH vnnn K« ^in^r« *c t***~**i±:L » .../ 



Virgilittsj&c. But of thefe and the r« 

 after. There is alfo another Worke 



«%i fafesw, Jfo£ de facile parabililus 



- »•> I fhail fay fomewhat hen 

 ** '- wi and may well be his* It is 



** n^A ~~i — /j rme d ^ ith the con f enc ofother Greeke Phyfitions, by the greaYlaborof 



CMoibam 



Vinyl 



of re/pap, 



ie Gefner. 



eis the laborious Caitu Plinitu fecundasjvho liued in 



red by the fulphurious vapours that came from mot 



firejhe through oucrmuch curiofitie to fee and find 

 oo nigb.and this was Anno Bom. 70. He read and w 



• 



Mu*di,which alfo haue receiued fuch wounds,as haue tried the beft skill of 



hifi K 



fe book 



Medicos 



t t 



the twelfth 



mitten in other Authors than from any certain knowledge of his owne, in many places 

 following the method and giuing the words of Tbcopbraji^and in other places thofe of 

 Dufmtdcsttoafr he neucr make mentionof the later of them I he alfo mentions and no 

 queltion followed many other Authors, whofe writings are long fince perifhed Some 

 times he is pretty Iarge,and otherwhiles fo briefe, that fcarce any thing can from thence" 

 be gathered. From the fcuenteenth vnto the twenty feuenth he varioufty handles them • * 

 wnat method vou mav miieklv Cpp hv Mc vh»,i,...^« r «\ n <*\ ;„u:~c-/il„_. • . . > 



method you may quickly fee by his Elencbus contained 



thofe whereof he 



Galen. 



Peulns. 

 Alum. 



reft. 



r 





eginning with &thhjris j^gtr Mum, Aloe jfrc. fo going 



x 





Faculties 



medicines! 



their 



CMtcer 



The next that prefent themfelues are two counterfeits^© abufe the world vnder fci. 

 ** Si "tles,and their names haue much more antiquitie than the works them felues. The 





ii/Emili 

 nntin tncleverlcs; * 



At 



lafl 



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\ 





Sapafaa* volucres legit mibigr anchor dvo, 

 £u*q; noeetSerpen^quamvat herba Macer 



Worke th 



: 



agoe 



kes mention of this Macer. He in his Poems imitated Meander . but this 

 w is caned about vnder his name,is written in a rude and fomwhat barba- 

 fterent from the ftile of thofe times wherein CMaeer liued, and no way in 

 taring meander. It feemes to haue been written about 400 or 5 oo yeares 



Afuk, 





Author 



tvnri^tT-^ 3 and [° me haue beene fo abfurdly bold of late, as „ F „ t xc rai 

 Works of AfuUtm > yet the vncurious ftile and method of the whole Worke will 

 uince them oferroyfthere were no other argument. I haue feen fome fourc ManufJ 

 01 this Author,and heard of a fifth.and all nfthem f^m rnh* nt <t^a ~l*:„..u:^ .1 



of 



fome 



ft of 



/«•* r«* • t — ^"6*'" "" """- wwiuiy i-jucr anu uorer OI Antiquitie,5 r jfftf- 



wrj Qww ; ic was in a faire Saxon hand 5 and as I remember in the Saxon tongue.but what 

 title itcamedlat that time was not curiousto obferue. I faw alfo another after that, 



which 



\ 



1 being informed by my friend M; Goody er (as you may finde in the chapter of Saxifrage 

 rtn .V t0 r u" hlS Manufcnpr,which was very antienr,acknowledged no fuch j£- 

 SZ «« C! ?WI,if • ^. U J? * I,K ?f /^ cMminc Ibme other Manulcripts s fi> I procured a very 



wr f 11/ m l mU f h ^ n ° red fnend , Sl ™' M ^ rn - : In the ver y beginning of this is 

 52? t /T7 T ^' qU T r Tr dlCin / r ? 0Cratis > * Ut0 * is ^olienfls vrbUde diver fis 



Ztji7^o af W T t* Cm e*s A T dlbm > &C - A IittIe afcer in che &™ P^ at the begin- 

 *og of a table which is of the Vertues, are thefe words \ Inprimo MhfJberU defcripu, 



qnas 





