54 INTRODUCTION. 
five hundred and sixty-two lines. It was printed 
by Leyser, from a manuscript in the Wolfenbuttel 
library, but with many errors77, And it professes 
to be an exposition of the Antidotarium of Nicholaus, 
and the commentary of Platearius upon it”. It is 
in four books, with a prologue to each, and what he 
styles prologus finalis at the end. Above seventy 
medicines are treated of, in alphabetical order. 
Without stating the materials of which they are 
composed, he describes their various virtues, the 
cases and circumstances in which they are applicable, 
the dose, the mode of giving them, and whether 
alone or in composition with other medicines, and he 
concludes each article with the information of how 
long it will keep good. ‘The recipes for the medicines 
themselves are to be found in his original authors 
Nicholaus, and Platearius: and in Myrepsius de 
Compositis Medicaminibus, and Actuarius, on the 
same subjects. They are mostly very complex, and 
the Ingredients are frequently very costly : as diamar- 
17 Liber de Virtutibus et Laudibus Compositorum Medicami- 
Dean compositus, editus a Magistro Aigidio Corboilens! 
—#n Leyser’s Historia ie 
Hale, 1721, p, 500, poetarum et poematum Medii 
7 Antidotarium Nicholai, cum expositione Jo. Platearii, ¥ 
cslthotan, ee Mesua, at Venice in 1589, It¥ 
