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The Alphita is contained in Salvatore de Renzi's Collectio Sahrnitana ; 

 ossia documenti inediti .... alia scuola medica Salernitana, iii. (Napoli, 

 1854) 270-322. 

 See page 377. 



Alpinus, Prosper, 15.53-1617, Professor of Botany and "Ostensore dei 

 Semplici," i.e. teacher of drugs, in the University of Padua. He visited 

 Esypt in 1580-1583. De Plaalis ^gyptilihev qX,c. Venetiis, 1592. 

 " See pages 44. 94. 222. 425. 500. 



Alrasis or Arrasi — See Rhazes. 



Angelus a Sancto Josepho, originally Joseph Labrousse, of Toulouse, born 

 1636, died in 1697. He was at Ispahan as a Carmelite monk in 1664, and 

 published in 1681 at Paris a Latin translation of what he called a Pluirma- 

 copcefi Persica. Consult Lucien Leclerc, Histoire de la medecine arabe, ii. 

 (Paris, 1876) 84. 



Seepages 12. 415. 548. 



Anguillara, Luigi (bom at Anguillara, died in 1570 at Ferrara), " Os- 

 tensor simplicium," i.e. professor of materia medica, in the University of 

 Padova ; author of Semplici, liquali in piu Pareri a diversi nobili huomini 

 scritti apparono. Vinegia, 1561. 



See page 303. 



Arrianos Alexandrines — See Pcriplus. 



Avicenna. Abu Ali Alliosain Ben Sina Albochari (of Bokhara), 980- 

 1037. A learned philosopher, mathematician, student of medicine, minister, 

 etc., the most celebrated among Arab physicians, their " doctor princeps." 

 His '■'■Canon medicince" was admired until the end of the 15th century as the 

 most complete system of medicine, of which there are numerous editions, 

 chiefly translations. We have particularly referred to " Avicennae libri in re 

 medica omnes, lat. redditi a J. P. Mongio et J. Costmo," 2 vols. Venetiis, 

 ap. Vine. Valgrisium, 1564. 



See pages 12. 31. 125. 161. 225. 393. 429. 490. 642. 716. 



Ayurvedas — See Susrutas. 



Baitar. Abu Mohammad Abdallah Ben Ahmad Almaliqi (of Malaga), 

 called Ibu Baitar. He travelled from Spain to the east, lived about 1238- 

 1248 as a physician to the court in Egypt, and died in 1248 at Damascus. 

 His great work on Materia Medica — Liber magnse coUectionis simplicium 

 iilimentorum et medicamentorum — has been (very unsatisfactorily) translated 

 into German by Joseph von Sontheimer, 2 vols, Stuttgart, 1840-1842. 



See pages 4. 31. 115. 211. 305. 383. 415. 425. 462. 488. 490. 675. 



Barbosa, Odoardo (Duarte Balbosa), a Portuguese who visited Malacca 

 before 1511, and accompanied Magalhaes in his famous circumnavigation; 

 killed in 1522 by the natives of the Philippines. Barbosa wrote in 1516 an 

 excellent account of India, published in Ramusio's collection, Delle navigation! 

 et viaggi, &c. Venetia, 1854. Libro di Odoardo Barbosa Portoghese, fol. 

 413-417. Also in "Coasts of East Africa and Malabar," published for the 

 Hakluyt Society, London, 1866. — Barbosa quotes the prices of many drugs 

 found in 1511-1516 at Calicut. An abstract of this interesting list will be 

 found in Fliickiger, Documente zur Geschichte der Pharmacie. HaJle, 1876, 15. 



See pages 43. 241. 405. 521. 595. 600. 644. 672. 675. 717. 



Batutah. Abu Abdallah Mohammed .... AUawati Athtbangi, called 

 Ibn Batuta, of Tangier, in Morocco. 1303-1377. The greatest of the Arabic 

 travellers ; he visited the east as far as the Caspian regions, Delhi, Java, 

 and Pekin, and also Northern Africa as far as Timbuktu. — Voyages d'lbn 



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