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1518; Brunfels in his ‘‘ Rhapsodies’’ makes many concise quotations from him ; he was 
also vigorous as well as concise, if we may judge from his remark aoe Asarum (Br. 
: 74)that its root applied in a lotion ‘* vehementer cerebrum confortat. 
1519, Manardus, 1462-1536, critic of Dioscorides, see 38. 
1525, Luca Ghini began this year his famous lectures at Beligdn on the plants of 
Dioscorides, lectures continuing 28 years and meeting great applause, though as yet un- 
published, but lying in MS. at the Univ. of Bologna. Ghini ‘‘ was the first who erected 
a separate professorial chair of botanical science ; he was the preceptor of Caesalpino 
and of Anguillara, who became two of the soundest critics in the knowledge of plants 
that the age produced,’ Pulteney. Wm. Turner was also Ghini’s pupil at Bologna. 
Ghini afterward founded the botanical garden of Pisa; see infra, pp. 367, 369. 
7 Euricius Cordus, Simesius, 1486-1538; see p. 355. 
1528, Giorgio Valla, of Piacenza; his De avhnee natura was printed at Stras- 
burg, Aug., 1528, 8vo, 104 fol. He is one of the authorities Brunfels used, citing him 
for Satyrion, Chamaedrys, Capnon (Valla’s caption for Fumaria), etc. 
1529, Janus Cornarius’ Dioscorides ; see p, 339 and (iz/fra under Aiviws). 
1529, Count Hermann von Neuenar, author of ‘¢ Annotations’’ printed by Brunfels, 
1531 (forming pages 116-129 of his De vera) and prefaced by a letter by Count von 
Neuenar from Cologne in ae to Schottus, John Scott, the Strasburg printer. These 
Annotations are concerned with the nomenclature, etc., of 28 plants of Dioscori rides : 
Uses Buphthalmum, oe ean Anthemis, Ci tomthieuaan: Argemone and 
upa m, pp. 118-119, among plants sometimes confused with Aster. Count von 
rea remarks, p. 128, that he uses ‘‘ opera Symonis Ianvensis, atque Pandectarii, 
ubi non hallucinantur.’’ He was ‘the last of a noble family ; was born probably in 
1476; died 1530 at Cologne; was translator of Psalms into Lane ae 
a life of dee an editio Theodorus Priscianus, etc.,’ F; 
1530, Baptista Fiera, of nly author of ‘* De virtutibus Be sal > ‘rasbor, 
1530 bale preneney the author whom Brunfels lists among his authorities, 1539, 8 ‘* Bap 
tista 
15 pi Baptista Pius, another of Brunfels’ recent ee 1530, perhaps Bumal- 
dus’ Jo. Baptista Theodosius, physician, professor of medicine at Bologna, 4” 
edition of whose Epistles to Manardus, Ly etc., on medicinal herbs was 
printed at Basle, 1553. 
1531 tiraoicls ‘Father of botany” ; Exegesis, Dioscorides ; see p- 34°- 
1531, Venked Fuchs, 1501-1566 ; “ Annotationes’’ on Dioscorides ; in Brun- 
fels’ De Vera; . 348. 
1531, Bock 6 + Tr ; Dinssttationes on Dioscorides; in Brunfel’s De 77 
1531, John Lonicer ; his Scholia on Nicander, 1531, on Dioscorides, 1543- 
, Symphorianus Campegianus, of Leyden; his Castigationes, Leyden, 1537 : 
consisted ‘of four books of e iol chiefly of Arabic physicians ; his Elysium 
Galliarum followed, ae 1533: ! 
oannes Fra s Rota, ‘medicus...peritissimus,”’ of Bologna; his De 
1533, 
Graecorum siiseeidudc t eal » $533. 
1533, Cornelius Petrus isk, notes on Dioscorides, oe 1533: 
1534, Benedictus Textor, annus differentiae ex Dioscorides, Par 
1536, Antonius Musa Brasavola; born and died (like aaas at Ferrars s 
1500-1555; court-physician 1525 to tein Il, Prince of Ferrara; was in bigh 
esteem as physician with the Pope, German emperor, Alfonso I, and Francis 15 i 
of ‘ Examen omnium simplicium sassdiinnnatiieaes,** Rome, 1536; does not st 
