APPENDIX. 763 



author's son, an " apotiquaire " at St. Denis. See Hanhu-nfs appreciation of 

 the book, Pharm. Journ. i. (1870) 298. 



See pages 21. 26. 73. 118. 126. 148. 260. 263. 479. 617. 623. 648. 657. 



Porta, Giovanni Battista, 1539(?)-1615, a distinguished Napolitan noble- 

 man. Of his remarkable works we have before us — De distUlatione, lib. ix. 

 RomiB 1608, 154 pp. It is partly contained also in Porta's Magias naturalis 

 libri XX, 1589, yet not in the earlier editions of the Magia, the first of which 

 appeared in 1558. Another work of the same author, the Phytognomica, 

 Naples, 1583, may be mentioned as one of the chief works treating on the 

 " Doctrine of Signatiu-es." There are several editions of it, usually containinf 

 the curious figures of the tubers of orchids as especially connected with that 

 superstitious doctrine. 



See pages 118. 263. 385. 479. 526. 580. 653. 655. 



Prsepositus, Nicolaus, one of the eminent physicians of the school of 

 Salerno (see S.) li\'ing in the first half of the 12th century. He gives in his 

 Antidotarium, first edition, Venetiis 1471, the composition of about 150 

 medicines, which were much used, under his name, during the following 

 centuries. They are enumerated in Choulant's book, mentioned p. 751 before. 



Pun-tsao, a great Chinese herbal, written by Le-she-chin, in the middle 

 of the 16th century. It consists of 40 thin octavo volumes, the first three of 

 which contain about 1,100 woodcuts. For more exact information consiilt 

 Hanbury, Science Papers, 212 et seq. 



See pages 4. 76. 83. 167. 510. 520. 



Ramusio, Giovanni Battista. — Terza editione delle navigationi e viaggi 

 raccolti gia da G. B. Ramusio, 3 vol. fol. Venetia, 1554. A valuable collection 

 of accounts of mediaeval travellers, chiefly Italian. 



See page 4. 



Ray (Wray, or Rajus) John, 1628-1705, a clergyman and distinguished 

 botanist. His Herbarium is preser\-ed in the British Museum. Historia 

 plantarum, 3 vols., folio, London, 1686-1704. 



See pages 254. 277. 481. 482. 615. 731. 740. 



Redi, Francesco, a physician of Arezzo, who lived at Florence. 

 Esperienze intomo a diverse cose naturali e particularmente a quelle che ci son 

 portate dell' India. Firenze, 1671. 



Seepages 24. 111. 287. 



Rhazes (Abu Bekr Muhammad ben Zakhariah Alrazi) from Raj, in the 

 Persian province Chorassan, where he was a physician to the hospital and 

 subsequently at Bagdad ; died A.D. 923 or 932. 



See pages 3. 271. 393. 642. 716. 



• Rheede tot Draakestein, Hendrik Adriaan van, 1636-1691, Dutch 

 governor of Malabar. He ordered the most conspicuous plants of India to be 

 figured and to be described, mostly by Jan Commelin, professor of botany at 

 Amsterdam. This great and valuable work is the Hortus indicus malabaricus, 

 12 vols, folio, Amstelodami 1678-1703, with 794 plates. 



See pages 130. 189. 211. 297. 403. 421. 425. 547. 565.580. 644. 677. 726. 



Ricettario Fiorentino ; one of the earliest, if not the very first, printed 

 Pharmacopoeia published by authority. It bears title : Ricettario di dottori 

 deir arte, e di medicina del collegio Fiorentino all' instantia delli Signori 

 Consoli della vmiversita delli speciali. Firenze, 1498. Folio. We have 

 referred to the edition of 1567, printed at " Fiorenza, Nella Stamperia dei 

 Giunti 1574." There are other editions of that Florentine Pharmacopceia 

 down to the year 1696. 



See pages 40. 410. 706. 



