312 AsTeR History ; THE AGGREGATOR 
apostemata* and for inflatio stomachi, and these uses may have 
been of independent growth. This lack of the customary men- 
tion of “violets potent for children’s epilepsy’ seems to have 
caused some one of the plant-writers of the period to feel that 
something more should be said ; so that in one copy of the 1499 
edition of the Aggregator, we find added to Vio/a in apparently a 
16th century hand, the note “ Viola purpurea dicitur viola ad cadu- 
chos,”’ (sic), z. ¢., “Viola purpurea is called the violet for the falling 
sickness,” the epileptic’s violet. 
LVI. Conrap von MEGENBERG 
Bavarian ecclesiastic and writer, Conrad von Megenberg was 
author, in his Buch der Natur, of the first general natural history 
in German, written by him probably at Vienna, in 1349 and 1350, 
as an amplified translation of De Cantiprato’s Natura rerum. 
The Buch der Natur was first printed} in 1475, and five times 
again by 1499, but became rare and finally obscure, though re- 
Among other piants which have reference to Aster seed the Aggregator says 
of ** Camomiilla, ‘sedat dolorem apostematum,’’’ c. 37; like the Aster of Greece and 
Rome. Otherwise this Camomilla is distinct, and its figure is very expressive of the 
ant. 
** Enula is of two kinds, orfulans et campestris,’’ c. 54; ** nothing is to be said here 
of the former,’’ Like its relative Aster, it is powerful ‘* contra dolorem stomachi et 
intestinorum.’’ The famous line from the R gimen 
Enula campana reddit precordia sana 
is quoted; see supra, p. 287. 
oe (c. 67), 7. ¢., Geum, is recommended, like the Aster of Greece; for 
the stom 
a or draguntea major’? (c. 127), the Aaron of the Italian per 
Aram of modern botany ; to this plant has passed the former Aster property of ma® 
ing a tea to flee, the Aggregator saying of this, ‘*it makes the venom of serpents to 
flee away.’ 
‘* Solatrum”’ stands bag in 4 species for Solanum nigrum and the fou 
‘* Strychnos’’ of Dioscorides. little 
‘‘ Mellissa”’ here replaces Borachum and Melissophyllon for balm, and with 
or no importation of Aster characters, 
* The classical repute of the violet for sores and tumors, reappearin 
called apostemata, receives a new revival after its long disappearance from the ph 
copeia, in my claims put forth for it in England in Igor as a cancer-cure. 
seit a te ae by Hans Bamler at Augsburg (and $e 
et an bacon sessed a copy; Pritzel numbers it 11764 among his 
r species of 
g here for those 
arma- 
ain in 
volget 
ote oie tion, a folio of 292 leaves, begins with ‘* Hye eae ik 
seal der oe ..-Welches a meyster Cunrat von Megenberg von latein 19 
transferiert und geschreiben hat 
