Published firs 
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reached that stage in 1540. By 1542 Fuchs had advanced the 
next step, had discovered the correct plant and had published its 
figure; and by 1543 Egenolph had appropriated this figure and 
was publishing it reduced in his “ Ryff’s Dioscorides.” 
LXXI.’ Euricrus Corpus 
Euricius Cordus, Simesusius, 1486-1538, physician, botanist 
and philologist, friend of the philologist Eobanus and of Joachim 
Camerarius, was born at Siemershausen in Hesse, 1486, and died 
at Bremen 15 38-9. He was father in 1515 of the great Valerius 
Cordus ; called by the Landgrave Philip to the new Protestant 
University of Marburg, he there translated Nicander into Latin 
verse, 1527; and wrote a German Theriaca (1532, Frankfort, by 
Egenolph) ; and also his chief work, his Botanologicon (printed 
by Gymnicum at Cologne, 1534, a rare octavo; in dil. Meyer) 
chiefly concerning errors in interpretation of Dioscorides’ plant- 
hames; with an index summarizing the results for 350 plants. 
The latter was reprinted 1549 by Egenolph at Frankfort in a oth 
€dition of Ruellius’ translation of Dioscorides, forming pages 
ot under the name “ Judicium de herbis’”’ (ex 4i6/. Columbia 
iv, ) 
Euricius Cordus joined with the current opinion of his period 
dentifying Aster Atticus with the Stellaria of that time, mean- 
ing pr Obably A/chemilla. He was influenced by Fuchs’ judgment 
4S published in Brunfels’ De vera, 1531, and followed him in 
identifying the Alibium of the Arabs with Aster Atticus, not with 
‘yngium. His words are as follows: Judicium, p. 534, oes 
“ Aster Atticus, est Inguinalis, quem male apud Serapionem 
Per Eryngio accipium, nomine decepti Herbarii.”’ 
“Sain, p. 535, “ Bubonium, id est Alibium, Inguinalis, Aster 
Atticus, Stellaria,”’ 
LXXII. VaALeritus Corpus 
Cordus, son of Euricius Cordus, born 1515 at siem- 
*shausen, Bavaria, studied medicine in the University of Witten- 
rigs (where he became the friend of the renowned Breslau physt- 
%, Crato von Kraftheim), and as early as 1535, at Nuremberg, 
t his oft-printed Dispensatorium pharmacorum omnium, 
Oldest German pharmacopoeia. After lecturing on Dioscorides 
in j 
Valerius 
