CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface 7 



Introductory . . 13 



CHAPTER 



L The Rhizotomi . . 45 



II. Theophrastus of Eresus, B.C. 370-286 (or 262) 52 



III. Greeks and Romans after Theophrastus 143 



IV. Introductory to the Sixteenth Century German 



Fathers . . . . 165 



V. Otho Brunfelsius, 1464-153.1 169 



VI. Leonhardus Fuchsius, 1501-1566 192 



VII. Hieronymus Tragus, 1498-1554 . . 220 



VIII. EuRicius CoKDus, 1486-153S . 263 



IX. Valerius Cordus, 1515-1544 270 



Index 315 



