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63. REGIMEN SANITATIS Magnini Mediolanensis medici famosis- 
simi attrebatensi episcopo directum. In super opusculuim de fleu- 
bothomia editu. a... magistro Reginaldo de villa nova 
1506. 
A handbook of household medicine, popular during the Middle 
e Villa Nova. 
— 
Ages, here edited by Arnoldus « 
6+. TABERNAEMONTANUS, JACOB THEODOR. 
Neuw Kreuterbuch .. . 2 pts.in 1 vol. 1588-1591. 
First edition. 
A large and finely illustrated work, written by a herbalist who 
had been a pupil of Bock and Brunfels. 
65. THEOPHRASTUS. 
De historia plantarwm libri 1X... 1552. 
The pupil and successor to Aristotle, Theophrastus is known as 
the “ Father of Botany.” In this book, first printed in 1483, he 
mentions about four hundred and fifty plants, but his descriptions 
are vague and the plants extremely difficult to identify. 
66. ToURNEFoRT, JOSEPH PIrroNn DE. 
Institutiones ret herbariae. Edito altera, gallica longe auctior. 
3 vols. 1700-[1703]. 
Tournefort’s system of classification was an artificial one, based 
ye corolla. 
ae 
on the characters of one organ, t 
67. TRADESCANT, JOHN (JUNIOR) 
Musacum Tradescantianwun, or a collection of rarities preserved 
at South Lambeth neer London. 1656. 
Contains also a list of the plants then growing in the famous 
garden of John Tradescant, senior, gardener to Charles I. 
68. VALLISNIERI [DE VALLISNERA|, ANTONIO. 
Dialoghi sopra la curtosa origine di molti insetti. 1700. 
Bound with his Pruna raccolta d@osservationt e d’esperienze. 
1710 
He demonstrated that insect larvae in plant 
ing to establish the prin- 
ae 
galls ” originated 
— 
from eggs deposited by insects, thus hel 
ciple of biogenesis. 
