752 APPENDIX. 



Acosta, Christ6bal, physician at Burgos ; he travelled in the east and 

 visited Mosambique and Cochin; died A.D. 1580. — Tractado de las Drogas y 

 medicinas de las Indias Orientales con sus Plantas debuxadas al biuvo por 

 Christoual Acosta medico y cirujano que las vio ocularmente. Burgos, 1578. 

 Small 4°, 448 pages (and 38 pages indices). There are translations in Latin 

 by Clusius, 1582 ; in Italian, 1585 ; in French by Antoine Colin, 1619, etc. 



See pages 154. 423. 462. 503. 565. 



Actuarius, Johannes, a physician to the court of Constantinople, 

 towards the end of the 13th century, author of " Methodus medendi," and 

 " Be medicamentorum compositione." Both these works were repeatedly 

 printed during the 1 6th century ; we are not aware of any recent editions. 



See pages 222. 263. 



.^gineta — See Paulos. 



Aetius of Amida, now Diarbekir, on the upper Tigris. He wrote, pro- 

 bably about A.D. 540-550, Aetii medici graeci ex veteribus medicinae Teira- 

 hihlos. Basilese, 1542. 



See pages 35. 175. 271. 511. 559. 



Albertus Magnus (Count Albert von Bollstadt), 1193-1280, a Domini- 

 can monk. Bishop of Regensburg (Ratisbon). — Alberti Magni ex ordine Prae- 

 dicatorum De vegetahilibus libri vii., historise naturalis pars xviii. Edit. E. 

 Meyer and C. Jessen. 1867. 



See pages 543. 568. 678. 



Alexander Trallianus, of Tralles, now Aidin-Giisilhissar, south-east of 

 Smyrna, an eminent physician who wrote about the middle of the 6th century 

 of our era, possibly at Rome. — Alexandri Tralliani medici libri xii. Edit. 

 Joanne Guintero. Basilese, 1556. 8vo.— An admirable German translation, 

 together with the Greek original, has been published at Vienna, 2 vols., 

 1878-1879, by Puschmann. 



See pages 6. 222. 281. 325. 388. 493. 529. 595. 680. 



Alexandria, the Roman custom-house of 



In the Pandects of Justinian there is to be found a curious list of eastern 

 drugs and other articles liable to duty at the Roman custom-house in Alex- 

 andria, from the time of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, about A.D. 176-180. 

 The complete list is reprinted in Vincent, Commerce of the Ancients, ii. 

 (1807) 698 ; also in Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, ii. (1855) 167. 



See pages 222. 315. 321. 493. 577. 635. 644. 



Alhervi. Abu Mansur Movafik ben Ali Alherui, a Persian physician of 

 the 10th century. He compiled a work on medicines and food from Greek, 

 Arabic, and Indian sources, which was published and partly translated by 

 Seligmann : Liber fundamentorwni pharmacologice . . . epitome codicis 

 manuscripti persici bibl. caes. reg. Vienn. Vindobonae, 1830-1833. 



See pages 12. 225. 325. 490. 



Alkindi. Abu Jusuf Jakub ben Ishak ben Alsabah Alkindi. He 

 wrote about A.D. 813-841 at Basra and Bagdad, about various subjects of 

 natural philosophy, mathematics, medicine, music. 



See page 642. 



Alphita, a curious list of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations, pro- 

 bably compiled in the 13th century, and originally written in French (accord- 

 ing to Haser, Geschichte der Medicin, i. 1875, 648 sqq.). Daremberg, La 

 m^decine, histoire et doctrine, 1865, attributes the Alphita to Maranchus. 



