APPENDIX. 765 



Simon Januensis — See pages G. 44. 582. 652. 



Sloane, Sir Hans, 1660-1753. In 1687 physician to the governor of 

 Barbados and Jamaica. His library and large collections of natural history 

 formed the nucleus of the British Museum. He wrote (1) Cataloyus plantarum 



qufe in insula Jamaica sponte proveniunt vel vulgo coluntur adjectis 



aliis quibusdam, quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves et St. Christophori 

 nascuntur, Londini, 1696. (2) A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, 

 Nieves, St. Christophers and Jamaica. London, 1707-1725, fol. 



See pages 18. 73. 188. 203. 288. 591. 615. 629. 710. 



Susruta. The author of " Ai/urvedas," i.e. the book of health, an old 

 Sanskrit medical work in which a large number of eastern drugs are mentioned. 

 It was first printed in the original language at Calcutta, 2 vols., 1835-1836, and 

 afterwards translated under the name Susrutas Ayurvedas, id est medicinse 

 systema a venerabili Uhanvantare demonstratum, a Susruta discipulo composi- 

 tum. Nunc primum ex Sanskrita in Latinum sermonem vertit .... Fr. 

 Hessler, Erlangse, 3 vols., 1844-1850. And by the same translator, Com- 

 mentarii et annotationes in Susrutse ajoirvedam, 1852-1855. Susruta was once 

 supposed to have written centuries before Christ, but chiefly the researches of 

 Prof. Haas, London, in the Zeitschrift der Deutsclien Morgerddndischen Gesell- 

 scluift, XXX. (1876) 617 sqq. and xxxi. (1877) 647, make it not improbable that 

 the Sanskrit '-Susruta" might have been generated from the Greek Hip- 

 pokrates by way of the intermediate form "Bukrat." The oldest testimony 

 as to the time of Susruta (and Charaka, see before) is the statement of Ibn 

 Abu Oseibiah, in the 13th century, that Susruta had been translated into 

 Arabic about the end of the 8th century. 



See pages 154. 188. 211. 225. 295. 315. 421. 425. 436. 503. 547. 572. 644. 



Tabernaemontanus, Jacob Theodor, physician at Heidelberg; died 

 A.D. 1590. A pupil of Tragus. — Neuw Kreuterbuch, Frankfurt, 1588, folio ; 

 second part, 1591, both with fig. Later editions, also in German, by Caspar 

 Bauhin and Hieronymus Bauhin. Latin translation, Eicones plantarum seu 

 stirpium . . . Francofurti, 1590, with 2225 engravings. 



See pages 308. 390. 731. 



Talbor, or also Tabor, Robert, 1642-1681. This singular personage 

 having been apprenticed to Dear, an apothecary of Cambridge, settled in 

 Essex, where he practised medicine with much success. He afterwards came 

 to London, and in 1672 published a small book called IIv/aeToAoyta, a rational 

 account of the cause and cure of agues (London, 12°). As stated at page 344, 

 he was appointed physician to the king, and on 27th July of the same year, 

 received the honour of knighthood at Whitehall. But he was not a member of 

 the College of Physicians ; and to save him from attack, Charles II. caused 

 a letter to be written restraining that body from interfering with him in his 

 medical practice. (Baker, I.e. at page 344, note 1). The appointment as royal 

 physician, made in consideration of "good and acceptable services performed," 

 led to the issuing of a patent under the Privy Seal, dated 7th August, 1678, 

 granting to Sir Robert Talbor an annuity of ,£100 per annum, together with 

 the profits and privileges appertaining to a physician in ordinary to the sove- 

 reign. In 1679 Talbor visited France and Spain, as recorded in the liecueil 

 des nouvelles etc. pendant I'annee 1679 (Paris, 1780) 466 (this includes the 

 Gazette de France, 23rd Sept., 1679). The journey to Spain he made in the 

 suite of the young queen of Spain, Louise d'Orleans, niece of Louis XIV., of 

 whom he is described as premier mMedn. During Talbor's absence, his prac- 

 tice in London was carried on by his brother. Dr. John Talbor, as is proved by 

 an advertisement in the 2'rue N'ews or Mercurius Anglicus, January 7-10, 1679. 



