I II E 



, i r. 



to C41 : 1'ut this opinion rest* only on tin- <l Ins 



having been the tutor oi' Stephamis Athcn: 



inor thinks, I'roin the barbarous words qi> 



. l>o the same person who it addressed I 

 l.j tin- title ProtMnothariu* In 1': j.t, ji. 



: who then-Ion- must 



:ived in tin- ninlli century . a Christum, anil , 



a ma a> appears from almost all hi- v.ni- 



in his phy '.vhere I 



,. ith admiration the wisdom. pov. 



of (iod a-i displayed in the human body. Cur/i. 



linn, f-ihr., pp.'l. . 27, I.'-:*. I*"'. -7J : 1>, I r,n., 



e. in. p. 'J7:>: c. ii. p. '.Xf : / 



,M line. p. T7 11. :<\'\ 



l hf Peripatetic philosophy. 

 PP. 2. :i. -I. 

 .i'. tu riiil 



.i'. tu riiilut!.. nl. in Hijipocr. 



Five n: ; main, of which the longest and most 



i anatomical and physiological treat is,-. in 



iHH>ks, ClltitU-ll Ili.ii rf;,; T.H' '.\l-IW<!l"jl' Kfiruirnvqc, De 



l-'ilirii-n. It contains MTV h'l 

 it i, almost entirely noni Galen's 



l)e Usu Partium Corpon.s Huinar.i,' lYoni 

 whom however he now and then differs, anil whom he somc- 

 appears to have misunderstood. In the fifth book 

 lie has hiseited large extiarts I'roin Hippocrates. De Ge- 

 nituia,' and l)e Natura Pueri.' He recommends in - 

 places the dissection of animals, but appears never to 

 have examined a human foody : in one passage he advises 



ulcnt In dUsect an ape.'or else a hear. or. if neither 

 of these 1 animals can be procured, to take whatever he can 



hut by all means,' adds he. ' let him dissect Mime- 



thing.' The work wa- first translated into Latin by J. P. 



..nd published at Venice. \:>'M'>. Svo.. together 



with Hip; ;ifoiis Medieanientis.' This 



iation was freimentlv reprinted, and is inserted 

 phens in Ins ' MedicM Artis Principcs,' Paris, 

 l'"ii;~. fol. The mamiscript from which Crassu.s made his 

 translation is probably lost : but, though <lefecti\e. it was 

 more complete than that which was used by Guil. Aforell 

 in editing the original text, which was published at Paris, 

 l.V>.~>, s\o.. in aveiy beautiful type, but without preface or 

 notes. This edition is now become scarce, and was re- 

 printed. together with Orassus's translation, by Fabric-ins, 

 in the twelfth volume of his ' Bifolioth. Grwca," ]). 7*'i, sq.. 

 Ilainb., 1724 and 1740. Two long passages which were 

 missing in the tourth and filth books were copied from a 

 manuscript at Venice, and inserted by Andr. Mustoxydes 

 and Denietr. Sehinas in their collection entitled SvXXoyi; 

 'AiroffiraofiaTiitv 'Avjrtorwv 'E\\tjvtK*av fif.rd ~tifitti^vtnii', Ve- 

 .. The last and best edition of this work is 

 that In Dr. Greenhill, which has lately been print id at 

 the Oxford University press, Gr. and I.at., Kvo., 1842. 

 The , - in the preface that he hits taken as the 



basis of his edition the manuscript at Venice mentioned 

 above, as being more complete than any other that he had 

 met with ; that three other manuscripts at Paris have been 



ted; that several passages have been corrected by 



ling to the original parts of Galen and Hippocrates 

 from which they were copied ; that Crassus's Latin version 

 has been retained, as representing the readings of a manu- 

 script nu longer in existence ; and that the notes are in- 

 tend. !.) illustrate and explain the Creek techni- 



cal terms, than to correct all the anatomical errors and 

 supply the deficiencies of the author. 



her of the works of Theophilus is entitled 'Vs-ii/t- | 

 vijfia iV riirc 'iTiorpa'roi'C 'A0o(n .urn/aril in Iliji- 



jjorrttli\ Ajihiinxinnx, which also seems to be taken in :i 

 m.-asurc from Galen's Commentary on the same 

 work. It was first published in a Latin translation by 

 Ludov. Coradus, at Venice, I.~>1!>. Hvo., under the name 

 of ' Philotheus.' The Greek text appeared for the first 

 in the second volume of F. U. Hi. !ia in 



Hippocratem et Galenum,' Kcgim. Prnss.. H\o.. 1KW. 



-r. iiipi Oi'puv. /' I Unix, contains little or 

 nothing that is original, but is a good compendium of 

 what was known by the antients on the subject, and 



4 Ini>ul..lM,p.292.b.l.cll<!d'A<TiraO(;plo c ,l,, 1 Ulii.i>iiirnr]ymUu>.,. 

 of UM traiuerlhn, ud mmu> IIpuToirraOa'pioc ; far I hi I'angK tIU us 

 OltH. 1M. n /./. ' irpwroc) Uul Uu word Jrpiirof, ) 



tnud to Utlo.. ud .if nifj inn DM Int or ohtef. U gpnrally npmwd In 

 MWrifU bylhi kttota, with . bort line .bo.c II, ihui a. 



was hi^hlv ages. It first ap- 



. tor I'oiii 

 N'lriiiiius MT \ 'minus , in dilions of the 



uon known by the name of the ' Articella.' It 



was fir>t published in a -par., I .">:{.'(. 



8vo., tian-lated b\ Alba:. .'tlier with the 



'e Pnlsilnis;' and li reprinted 



-u>., and n II. Stephens i;i 



his M tin IVmcipes.' The Greek text was pub- 



lished without the name of Theophilus, under tin 



Mac de I'nnis Liber Sinirulans,' N;c., at i 

 1008, rjino.. with a new Latin tian.slation by l-'cd. Morell. 

 which edition was inserted entire In I 'hartier m the eighth 

 \ohmie of his edition of the wo.ks o| Hippocnites and 



. The best edition is that by Thorn. Guidot, Luird. 

 Hat., 17<>:. HVO..GI-. and Lat. : and airain with a new title- 

 17:11. The text is much improved by adopting the 

 readiiiL's of a manuscript in the Hodleian Liliiary at Dxlord : 

 there is a new Latin \ersion by t ;.ioiis 



and learned prolegomena and notes. Th. ' only, 



from Guidot s edition, is inserted by .1. L. Ideler in hi.s 

 Physici et Medici (iiaeri Minorca,' Berol., Isll. 

 A short treatise, il<pi Aioxupq/iaruf, 



'i-i/iix. was fust publ.- .niilot, in (ireek. with 



a Latin t . anslatuin by himself, at the end of the edition 

 ' I).- I'nnis' mentioned above : the (ire. -I, text alone is in- 

 serted by Ideler in his' Physici et Medici Giaeci Minores.' 



The last of the works of Theophilus that remain- 

 treatise, llnii s^i-yuwr, l>r J':i/\i/>,i.\. which tirst appeared 

 ina Latin tianslathm, under the name of Plularetu- 



il of the old editions of the Articella.' It wa 

 published in a separate form at Basle. l."i:{;i. s\o. ; 

 lated by Albanus Torinus, together with the treatise De 

 I'rinis ' mentioned above. It was reprinted at Strassburg, 

 \7tX>. Hvo., and inserted by II. Stephens in his M. 

 Ariis 1'iincipes.' The Greek text was first published by 

 I-'./. Krincnns in his Anecdota Mcdica (iraeca.' LugJ. 

 Bat., Svo., ISIO, together with a new I-itin translation. 

 The text is taken from one manuscript at Levdenand four 

 at Paris, and differs very consideiably from the older Latin 

 translation going under the name of Philaretns. 



(Guidot's Notes to Theoph. D<- ( 'rinix : Kabiicius, liib- 

 Hiith. (trun-ii : Freind's/y/.v/.f/yV;;/.''"".' Haller's/>'/4/y/A. 

 Aunt, and Hililinth. Mi-ilir. Pnirt. ; Spreii-rel's Hint. Je la 

 Mi' i. : Dietx's I'lel'ace to the second volnni 'inlin 



in Iliji/.-nrr. it (inl. ; Ermerin's Preface to his A 

 dr.; Choulant's Hantlhurh ili'r Huchrrkunde. fur tin- 

 Ai-ltcn- Mfiliriii (ireenhill's Note* to Theoph. De > 

 II inn. I 



THKOPHKASTA. the name of a genus of plants dedi- 

 cated to Theophcastus. It was originally called Kresia by 

 Plumier. but afterwards altered by LiniKfus. It br 

 to the natural order Myi-sinace:i\ and is a small tree with 

 a simple unbranchcd stem, furnished with a tuft of long 

 evergreen leaves at top. givinir it a resemblance to a palm- 

 tree. The flower-- are of a white colour, and are arranged on 

 terminal racemes, which are v cry short, and hidden amongst 

 the leaves of the plant. The calyx is campanulate and 

 cartilaginous. The corolla is also campanulatc, with a 

 short tube, and hits a dilated throat, girded fov an elevated 

 angularly-lobcd, fleshy, arched ring : the limb is spreading. 



aniens are five, combined with the tube of th> 

 rolla ; anthers horned. The fruit is a cmstaccous spherical 

 berry, about the size of a crab-apple, with the seeds half- 

 immersed in the placenta. There is but one species, named 

 atler .Inssicn. '/'. Juxxifiii. This plant is the same a.s the 

 l.imiipus. It is a native of the mountains 

 of St. Domingo, and is much cultivated on account of its 

 lonu r handsome holly-like leaves. It may be propagated by 

 cuttings, and grows well ina soil of peat, loam, and sand. 

 rHEOPHRASTUS was born at Eresus. in the island of 



-. but the year of his birth is uncertain : some 

 writers state it to be B.C. 371 ; others place it much earlic-r. 

 According to Ilieronymus /,)<;'/., 2, ad Nepotianum) he 

 died in the year H.C. 285, and, as some say. at the age of 

 s.~i Diogenes'Lacrt., v. 40), or, according to others, at the 

 age of KHi years. These dill. of his ace 



the date of his birth uncertain. When a youth his 

 father Melanlas sent him to Athens lor the purpose of 

 study ing. Here he was first a pupil of Plato, and became 

 an intimate fiieml of Aristotle, who. charmed with his 



- and his beautiful pronunciation, is said to huve 

 given liim the name of Theophrastus (one who speaks di- 



