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The ' Ortus Sanitatis ' 



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the fruit or gum of a tree growing by the sea, while accord- 

 ing to others it is produced by a fish or by sea foam. In 

 order to represent all these possibilities, the figure shows 

 the sea, indicated in a conventional fashion, with a tree 

 growing out of it, and a fish swimming in it. The writer 

 of the Ortus Sanitatis, on the other hand, holds the opinion 



Text-fig. 15. "Panis" = Bread [Ortus Sanitatis, 

 Mainz, 1491]. 



that Amber is generated under the sea, after the manner of 

 the Fungi which arise on land. 



The treatises on animals and fishes are full of pictures 

 of mythical creatures, such as a unicorn being caressed by 

 a lady as though it were a little dog (Text-fig. 17), recalling 

 the " Lady and Unicorn " tapestry in the Musee Cluny— a 

 fight between a man and hydras — the phoenix in the flames 



