7G4 AJ^?ENDIX. 



Roteiro. The account of the famous expedition of Vasco da Gama to the 

 Cape (22nd November, 1497), due to one of his companions, Alvaro Velho. 

 The author enumerates in his remarkable pamphlet (see title at page 496) 

 several spices and drugs of India, stating their prices there and in Alexandria. 

 See also Ileyd, Geschichte des Levantehandels, ii. (1879) 507. 



See pages 404. 496. 



Ruel, or Ruellius, also de la Rouelle, Jean. 1474-1537. Physician 

 atj Soissons, lastly canon at Paris. De natura stirjiium libri iii. Parisiis, 

 1536. Folio. (See also Scribonius Largus.) 



See pages 31. 388. 



Ruiz, Hipolito. 1754-1816. A Spanish botanist, in 1777 appointed 

 director of the celebrated exploration of Peru and Chile. (See also Pavon.) 

 See pages 79. 345. 590. 



Rumphius (Rumpf), Georg Eberhard, 1627-1702. Dutch governor of 

 Amboina. He figured and described 715 plants of that island in the Her- 

 barium amboinense, 7 vols., Amstelodami, 1741-1755, folio, 696 plates. 



See pages 130. 189. 211. 278. 297. 336. 421. 535, 600. 673. 726. 749. 



Saladinus, of Ascoli (probably Ascoli di Satiano in the Capitanata, 

 Apulia), physician to one of the Princes of Tarentum (and apparently also to 

 the grand constable of Naples, Prince Giovanni Antonio de Balzo Ursino). 

 He is the author of the " Comj)endiu7n aromatarioi'um Saladini, principis tarenti 

 dignissimi medici, diligenter correctum et emendatum. Impressum in almo 

 studio Bononiensi, 1488 ;" 4°. 58 pages. Further on, the author calls himself 

 Dominus Saladinus de Esculo, Serenitatis Principis Tarenti phisicus princi- 

 palis. At the end of his pamphlet he gives the list of drugs " communiter 

 necessariis et usitatis in qualibet aromataria vel apotheca." .... This book 

 intended for the druggists, aromatarii, was written between A.D. 1442 and 

 1458, as shown by Hanbury, Science Papers, 358. 



See pages 148. 183. 225. 377. 388. 456. 582. 585. 600. 



Salerno, the school of medicine. During the middle ages, from about 

 the 9th century, there were flourishing in the said Italian town a large number 

 of distinguished medical practitioners and teachers. It is one of their merits 

 to have transmitted the medical art and knowledge of the Arabs to mediaeval 

 Europe. — See also Alphita, Conslantinus Africanus, Platearius, Nicolaus Prcepo- 

 situs. That once famous institution continued an obscure existence even down 

 to the year 1811, when it was suppressed, November 29th, by order of 

 Napoleon.— See pages 31. 225. 321. 334. 377. 690. 



Sanudo, Marino, a well informed Venetian writer, author of (1) Vite 

 de duchi di Venezia, in Muratori, Scriptores rerum italicarum xxii. (Mediolani, 

 1733) 954 et seq. (2) Marinus Sanutus dictus Torsellus Patricius Venetus, 

 Liber Secretorum fidelium crucis super terrte sanctse recuperatione et conserva- 

 tione, in Orientalis Historite, tom ii. (Hanovite, 1611) 22; lib. i. part i. 

 cap. 1. The latter work contains, at page 23, a classified list of eastern drugs ; 

 among the most valuable spices, Sanudo mentions cloves, cubebs, mace, nut- 

 megs, spikenard ; among those less costly, cinnamon, ginger, olibanum, pepper. 



See pages 245. 636. 



Scribonius Largus, a Roman physician of the first century of our era. 

 He accompanied, in A.D. 43, the emperor Claudius when he attempted the 

 definite conquest of the island of Britain. Scribonius is the author of the 

 valuable book, Compositiones Medicamentoruyn seu Compositiones medicse, the 

 earliest edition of which is due to Ruel, Paris, 1529. 



See pages 6. 3.5. 42. 147. 179. 219. 24.5. 331. 493. 503. 



