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na,*Serapiontand other Arabian physicians in their details of experi- 

 ence in treating diseases ; by SilvaticusJ in his celebrated Pandects ; 

 by Cuba|| in his Garden of Health ; by Ruelle§ in his History of 



in A. D. 855, aged about eighty years: his religious tenets were those of the 

 Nestorian christians. 



* Liber canonis pm 3 . que pnceps abohali abinsceni de medicina edidit. translulus 

 a magistro gerhardo crcmonensi 1 toleto ab arabico in latinum ; folio, Patavii, 

 1472 ; Lib. II in voce " Euforbium" as it stands in the alphabetical order. 

 In this Book, he treats of more than six hundred simple medicinal sub- 

 stances, and these consist chiefly of vegetable products and plants. This 

 edition of Avicenna's Canon contains only the first, second, and fourth books 

 of the original work, but the whole was afterwards translated into Latin by 

 Gerard of Cremona, and published ; folio, Mediolani, 1473. Notes on Avi- 

 cenna and Serapion are appended to pp. 41 and 42 of the present volume. 



■f Serapiunis Liber Aggregatus in Medicinis Simplicibus ; translatio Symonis 

 Januensis, interprete Abrahamo Judao Tortuosiensi, ab Arabico in Latinum ; 

 Jolio, Mediolani, 1473. Practica dicta Breviarium : liber de Simplici Medicina 

 dictus Ciroa-Instans ; folio, Venetiis, 1497, 1503, ab Arabico in Latinum a 



Gerhardo Ci emonensi translatus Gerard was a native of Cremona, in Italy : 



he studied Arabic at Toledo, in Spain, where he passed the greater part of 

 his life. He was born in A.D. 1114, and died in the seventy-third year of his 

 age, after giving Latin versions of Galen's entire works, and of those pub- 

 lished by the most popular Arabian physicians during the twelfth century. 



if Liber Pandectarum Medicine : omnia medicine simplicia cotines que ex oibus 

 antiquorum libris aggregauit eximius artiu et medicine doctor Maltheus Sil- 

 vaticus: folio, Bonouie, 1480. Six editions, 1474, 1474, 1478, 1478, 1480, 

 1498, of this remarkable production were published during the first typogra- 

 phical century, and nearly as many afterwards : nevertheless, it is a book 

 "of extreme rarity." — Matthew Silvaticus was patronized by Robert king of 

 the Two Sicilies, who elevated the philosophical doctor to the office of couit- 

 physician. His object in composing his Pandects was to expound the Greek 

 and Arabian " principles of healing" and thus to facilitate the study of medi- 

 cine and its collateral branches. He was a native of Mantua : his death cook 

 place in A.D. 1340 : his early history is not recorded. The early editions of 

 this Treatise are without " pagination," but the author's alphabetical method 

 promotes the ease of reference to particular articles. Under the head " Eu- 

 /orbium," he epitomizes the opinions of Dioscorides, Serapion and Messue on 

 its salutary qualities, and the records by Pliny concerning its discovery and 

 original denomination. 



|| Garten der Gesundheit; Jolio, Mentz, 1485. This Herbal was composed 

 bj John Cuba, a physician at Mentz : it underwent frequent republications, 

 obtained greatly diversified titles, and passed into versions in the chief Euro- 

 pean languages. From it were derived the Hortus Sanitatis ; folio, Mogunlia; 

 1492, and the Grele Herbal/; Jolio, London, 151 C : its appearance gave rise to 

 the order of herbalists, and thus became a principal foundation of modern bo- 

 tany. The medicinal properties of "Euforbium <en gomme" are discussed in 

 Chapter dxx of Cuba's original work. 



| he NaturA Slirpium libri tret, Joanne RtuUia authore; folio, Parinie, 1536, 



