APPEI^DIX. 759 



Macer Floridus, wrote, a.d. 1140, the book De viribus herharum. The 

 editio princeps was printed A.D. 1487 in Naples; the best edition is that of 

 Choulant, Leipzig, 1832 (140 pages). Nothing exact is known about that 

 author himself. 



See pages 627. 642. 684. 



Marcellus Empiricus, a high functionary of the two emperors 

 Theodosius, towards the end of the 4th and in the beginning of the 5th 

 centuries. — De viedicamentis empiricis, physicis ac rationalibus Hber. Basileae, 

 1536. 



See pages 183. 729. 



Marcgraf, Georg, 1610-1644, astronomer and geographer to Count 

 Johann Moriz von Nassau. See Piso. 

 Seepages 187. 211. 228. 371. 



Masudi, or Almasudi, Mac^oudi. A.D. 900-958. Born at Bagdad, travelled 

 in Arabia, India, and in the East of Africa. One of the distinguished 

 geographic writers of the Arabs. His works are being published by the Societe 

 asiatique of Paris : Les Prairies d'Or, texte et traduction par Barbier de 

 Meynard et Pavet de Courteille, 8 vols., 1869-1873 (in continuation). 



See pages 503. 573. 584. 600. 680. 



Mattioli, Pierandrea. Born in 1501 at Siena; living as a physician at 

 Trento, Giirz, Prag ; died A.D. 1577. There are many editions of his chief 

 work, Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica 

 materia. The first, in Italian, was published in 1544 at Venice. 



See pages 32. 147. 183. 390. 439. 456. 609. 650. 



Meddygon Myddvai — See Physicians. 



Me sue, the younger. Jahja ben M^saweih ben Ahmed. . . . Born at 

 Maredin, Kurdistan, physician to the Khalif Alhakem at Cairo; died A.D. 1015. 

 See pages 40. 225. 493. 



Monardes, Nicolds, 1493-1588, physician at Sevilla. — Historia medicinal 

 de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias occidentales, que sirven en medi- 

 cina. Sevilla, 1569. Latin edition by Clusius, Be simplicibus medicamentis 

 ex occidentali India delatis, quorum in medicina usus est. Antverp. 1574. 

 See Hanbury's appreciation of the book : Pharm. Journ. i. (1870) 298. 



See pages 148. 202. 206. 443. 466. 534. 537. 697. 705. 



Mutis, Jose Celestino, 1732-1808; 1760, physician to the viceroy of 

 New Granada; 1782, in charge of an " expedicion real botanica" of that 

 country. See Triana's work, quoted at page 369. Triana much reduces, 

 apparently with good reason, the merits of Mutis, which would appear to have 

 been overrated by Humboldt. 



See pages 106. 345, 



Nikandros Kolophonios, of Klaros, near Kolophon in Ionia, in the 

 2nd century B.C. Physician and poet. 

 See page 6. 



Nostredame, Michel de. Bom 1503 at Saint-Eemi, Provence. Physi- 

 cian and astrologer at Aix and Lyons; died a.d, 1566 at Salon, Provence. 

 See page 405. 



Oribasios Pergamenos, a friend and physician to the emperor Julianus 

 Apostata, 4th century. We referred chiefly to Bussemaker et Dareinbery, 

 Ocuvres completes d'Oribusitis, 6 vols., 1851-1876. 



See pages 35. 129. 175. 183. 222. 559. 729. 



Orta, Garcia de, or Garcia ab Horto. (Years of birth and death unknown.) 



