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In the " Grete Herbal," published in 15 16, we 

 find a cure — 



" For Dronkennesse. 



" To eschewe dronkennesse, drink the iuce of 

 bryony with as moche vyneyger, and he shal not 

 be dronke al that weke." 



It would seem a simpler plan to abstain from 

 intoxicants ! 



Again : 



" For Bytinge of a Wood (Mad) Dogge. 



" And if walnuts be stamped with salte and an 

 onyon they be good for byting of a wood dogge if 

 it be layde thereto." 



On the continent of Europe, too, there was much 

 botanical investigation, and the names of some of 

 the eminent botanists of the time are enshrined for 

 ever in those of famihar plants. The Fuchsia is 

 called after Fuchs, a German physician, who pub- 

 lished in 1542 a " History of Plants." Lonicera, 

 to which genus the Honeysuckle belongs, is called 

 after Adam Lonicer, of Frankfort, who died in 1586. 

 Lobelia is from Lobel, a Belgian physician, who died 

 in London in 1616. Matthiola, the Stock, com- 

 memorates Matthioli, an Itahan physician who 

 wrote a commentary on the works of Dioscorides. 

 Magnolia is from Pierre Magnol, who lived from 

 1638 to 1715. Other botanists of the time in whose 

 honour genera are named were Gesner of Zurich, 



