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of France, Germany, Italy and SwifTcrland. In diin jour- 

 ney he coUctled a prodigious number of plants, which fi<rmeJ 

 ll'.e bafis of his principal work, the " Ililloria Pbiitarum," 

 which he even tlien had in Contemplation, as appears by \n» 

 C'>rrefpondence with Gefner, carried on long after his return, 

 but which was not pubiiflicd until fcveral ycnrs after his 

 death. Having aecompliihed the principal ohj-j.'l of h!s 

 travels, he tint fettled at Bade, where in 1566 he was 

 elcfted profclTor in rhetcric. Some time after he rcmnvtd to 

 Yverdun, and at length, on the invitation of the duke of 

 Wirtemberg, to whom he was made principal phyfician, he 

 went to Montbelliard, where he continued to ilUJc tlie re- 

 Kiaining forty years of his life. Though botiiny engaged the 

 g tater part of his time and attention, yet lie was not tm- 

 minJful of other parts of natural biftory, as appears by his 

 account of the medicinal properties of the principal mineral 

 waters of E'jrope, pzrticnlarly of the waters at Boll, in the 

 principality of U'jrtcmberg, wriu.cn ?.t the command of the 

 du'ts, to which he has added defcriptions of th-jfe com- 

 plaints in which mineral waters are mifchievous ; and his 

 " Hifloria memorabilis Inporurn sbquot [•abidorum, qui circa 

 ann'.uil 1590, npud Monpelgartum, mnltorum damr.o, pub- 

 lice graffiti funt," p>:bh(i.ed at M rtbrllinrd, 1591, 8vo. 

 He dud in 1613, aged 72 years. Ilis corrtfponJtnce with 

 Gefncr, principally on bjtanical fi-bjeils, with his booic 

 •' De plar tis a divir, fanftifve nomcn habertib-js," was publidi- 

 ed by liisbrotherGafp:ird,atBafle,8vo, ij9i,parvu!iil:biilum, 

 Hailerfays, ct quafi fpecimcn fecuturi operis. In 1593, he 

 publiilied at Moi;tbclli?.id aifo, in 8vo, " Dc plantisabfinthii 

 nomen habcntibus." The prodromns of his great work was 

 publiihcd at Yverdun, in one volume 410. in 1619, under the 

 names of J. Buuhin and Henry Chcrler, his brother-in- 

 law, who had contributed to its ■perfection. In tiiis fpeci- 

 mcn, Hailerfays, you fee the rudiments of a natural claffi- 

 fcation of plants. The " Hiiloria plantarum nova, et ahfolu- 

 tiffirra, cum audorum conftr.fu et dilTenfu, ciica tas," upon 

 which the author had bellowed above fo:ty years' labour, 

 was at length publiilied at Yverdun in ifijo and 1651, in 

 three volumes in folio, under the care of Dr. Chabre. Not- 

 wi'.hilanding the numerous errors in this book, many of 

 "which Haller fays fhould be imputed to the editor, w!io 

 w?.s but indifferently qualified for the tafk he had under- 

 taken, it is a noble and valuable work, and defervedly places 

 the author in the fiift rank among the inr.provers of botany. 

 Haller's Bib. Botan. Gen. Biog. 



Bauhin, Gas?ard, born at Baile in 1560, twenty years 

 later than his brother John, having the advantnc;e of 

 hij brother's experience to guide him in his inquiries, 

 made proportionally early advances in knowledge. After 

 paffing through the neceffary preliminary [Indies, under Fa- 

 bricius ab Aquapendente, Sev. Pina:as, and other celebrated 

 anatoraiils at Padua, Montpcllier, and Paris, and liavino- 

 eoUedted in his travels a large number of plants, many of 

 them unnoticed by his brother, he returned to Bafle in 1580, 

 and was admitted doclorin medicine. In 1582, he was made 

 Greek profelFor, and in 1558, profefTor of anatomy and bo- 

 tany, of which he is called in his epitaph the Phceuix. 

 He was afterwards made profeflbr of the practice of medicine, 

 archiater, or principal phyfician to tlie city of Bafle, dean 

 of the faculty of medicine, and reftor of the univerfity, 

 which dillinguifhed honours lie continued to hold to the 

 time of his death, which happened in 1634. 



Indefatigable iu his attention to the duties ofhisfeveral 

 offices, he difcharged them with fuch regularity as to fe- 

 curc to him the affeition of his pupils, wlio materially affitled 

 him in coUtfting plants, neceffary in completing his botani- 

 cal works, to which alfo his correfpondcnts ia different 

 parts of Europe largely contributed. 



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Kutwitliftanding the mimher and variety of his oflicet, 

 much of his time nuiil have been employed in conipolii-.g and 

 preparing for the prefs his numerous pi'.blications on ana- 

 tomy and botany ; and though great additions and irnprove- 

 mtnts have been made in our knowledge in thofc fciencej 

 fince his time, many of our autlun's works are dill confulted, 

 and IkIJ in eilin-.ation. A few of the titles to his principal 

 works follow : for the relV, fee the Bib. Anat. and Bot. of 

 Haller. " Franc. Rouffetti 1. de jiartu ca;fareo, e Gallico in. 

 Latinum tranf." 410. 1586, Bade. Two years afttj- he rt pub- 

 lirtieJ this work with an appendix, coniairiing additional cafvs 

 of women who are faid to have undergone the operation and 

 recovered ; to which is alfo added a dcfcription of the valve 

 of the colon, of which he claimed the difcovery. " Thea» 

 trum Anatomicum, infinitis locis audum, Francof." i62r, 

 4to. including feveral fmaller works on anatomy, pubiiflicd 

 bv him before at various times. " Vivx imagines partiuin 

 corporis humaui a:neisformis expreffa;, ex theatro anatomico 

 Cafp. Bauhini defuniptse ;" Balle 1620. The r:gurts are 

 principally from V'cfilius and Enilachius : fome are proper 

 to the author. In this work r.llo are contained otiier difco- 

 vcriis in anatomy made by the author. " Deherniaphrodi- 

 tornm monllrofurimique partium natv.ra," Opcnheim, 1618, 

 8vo. In I J98, he pubhihed " Matthioli opera, qua: extant 

 omnia," fol. Franc, in which tiiere arc many plants, Haller 

 fays, not before dcfcribcd. " Pinax tlieatri botanici, feu 

 Index in Theophrafti Diofcorldis, Piinii, et botanicorum 

 qui a feculo icripferant opera," &c. Balilcce 1623, 4to. a 

 work extremely ufcful to perfons confulting the older bota- 

 nical writers. " Catalogus plantarum circa B.:fdeam naf- 

 centium," Bafil. 1622, Svo ; the largefl catalogue extant, 

 Haller fays, of plants growing in a fingle di(lri(^t. 



BauhiN, John Gaspard, fon ot the former, bom 

 March I 2th 1606, after being well inllnifted in the Latin 

 and Greek languages, and initiated in the knowledge of bo- 

 tany, anatomy, and other branches of medicine under his 

 father, went to Paris in 1624, where he continued two years, 

 attending the fchools of the mod celebrated mafters there. 

 He afterwards vifited England, Leydcn, Padua, and various 

 other places ; the fame of his anccilors procuring hiri an tafy 

 introduttion, wherever he went, to the mod diilingui(hcd 

 perfons. Returning to Bade in 1628, he was made doftor 

 in medicine, and two years after profcffor in anatomy and 

 botany, which ofRces he held for thirty years. In 1660, 

 he was made profeiior in the pradice of medicine, and was 

 feveral limes appointed dean of the faculty, and redtorof the 

 univerfity. He died July 14. 1685. 



Notwithflanding the numerous iionours conferred upon 

 him, he does not appear to have contributed much to the 

 improvement of thefcicncc he pvofcfied, having only left three 

 differtations of little note or value. " De pcile, de morbo- 

 rum differe!Uiis et caufis, ct de Epilepfia." 



BAUHINIA, fo named by Plumicr in honour of the 

 two famous botanifts, John and Cafpar Bauhin, in Bo/any. 

 Lin. gen. 51 1. Reich. 554. Schreb, 697. Plum. 13. Jnff. 351. 

 Clafs and order, ihcaniiria moim^yiiia. Nat. Old. /omentuceie r 

 kj;uniinala' Juff. Gen. Char. Cul. perianth oblong, gaping 

 longitudinally on the lower fide, reclining on the other, gaping 

 alfo live ways at the bafe, with live cohering leaflets above, 

 deciduous. Cor. petals five, oblong, waved, with attenu- 

 ated reflected tops, expanding ; the lower ones a little larger, 

 the upper ones more dillant, ail with claws placed on the 

 calyx. Sltim. filaments 10, declining, (horter than the co- 

 rolla ; the tenth mueh the longell ; anthers ovate, alway: on 

 the tenth, felJ.om on the reft. Pi/L germ oblong, littiiio; oa 

 a pedicel; (lyle filiform, declining; ftigma obtufe, riling. 

 Per. legume long, fubrolumnar, one-celled. Seei/j many, 

 loundilb, comprcfTtd, placed according to the length of the 



legume. 



