FUC 
. the treatment of the fweating ficknefs, which in 1 529 
began to rage in Germany. In the courfe of his five years’ 
relidence at Onoltzbach, Fuchfius publifhed a Compendium 
-or Introdu¢tion to the Prattice of Phyfic ; the fixth bcok of 
epidemic difeafes, tranflated from the 
bleedin 
efpecially in in pleurify ; : books of Medical Paradoxes, 
in which many errors of de Arabian and more recent “a 
“ficians are refuted. 
eonh: Eecius, a a eit aes ees ais, eee ing the 
merit of ius, procured his return to his. pro- 
feflorfhip there .. ad made himfelf too con- 
{picuous asa proteftant, and was too little difpofed to affi- 
milate his opinions, his manner a or his principies of educa- 
tion to thofe of the ruling powers, to remain at peace ; in- 
fomuch that, notwithftanding the fteady seer ae of Kc- 
cius, oS ftaoiaer in noltz- 
ach, taking refuge 
with the fatily of the margrave, on account of the pelti- 
Jen 
: re this period Ulric duke of bibesloats having em- 
braced the reformed religio n, was very anxious to induce the 
moft learned cies of ieee faith to eltablifh themfelves 
an afylum for a fiche as were difpofed to fhake off and to 
expofeé the papal ufurpations. ‘ Fuchfius was invited among 
the and, on fettling there a 1535, received an ampl 
356: d children, Fail 
of faith and fortitude, having in the courfe of his illnefs 
been obferved to experience no relief from his fufferings, but 
yhile ane with his friends on the fubjects of religien 
and, a e Rate which made him 
y after his death, in a burying 
pss und: adjoining to the cae rye his firit wife had been 
depofited but little more than three years before. 
Some botanical remarks of ar relating alae were 
tothe Arabian writeré, are found in ies 
Herbarium Se e wo which his 
reputation in this line of fludy chiefly ire is “7 Hi ie 
Plantarum, at Bafil in 1542. It confifts a 
volume in folio, with numerous wooden 
lesa 
fince a eae were it not for the tranfcendent mer rit of i 
ts, inferior to thofe of Brunfelfius alone in exe- 
utio r exceeding the They chiefly 
indeed.confift of pharmaceutical plants, not of rare or diffi- 
rks of Clufiu 
FU C. 
mon ag ae Europe. Amongfi the pooreft of thefe is 
a French duodecimo, printe ted at Lyons, under the title of 
Le Benef ice Cone mun, in 1555, for which our author is 
certainly not refponfible, and it is rather hard in Linneus to 
clafs him, on account of eae ch f{perious editions, ae 
the heads of mon/froft an come a Bibliot. Ce Botanic 
though indeed he there ee as aaa Soar e ufitati sn ‘arth 
with re pect to original edition. By fome of his writ 
cae. ially his narus furens, publifhe a. in 1545 ana 
Cornarus, who ne attacked his fii "ifloria Plantarum ina faa 
entitled Vulpecula excoriata, he appears to have been vehement 
in controverfy, which perhaps 1 is to i attributed more to 
the temper of the times in which he lived, and the example 
of the theologians, to whom, nevertnclens mankind are fo 
much obliged, than to any original malignity of difpolition. © 
: any cale the repreach mu asi eft with the affailant. 
_ who ufes fuch vile weapons, t with the party wh 
1 a 
merely defends himnfelf “though eral it is alwa ays more 
magnanimous and 
invulnerable fhicld of confcions fuperiority. 
character and deportment Fuclifius is faid to have been digni- 
fied ae amiable, with a fine manly perfon, and a clear fonorous 
voic His piety, nae and anaes defire to 
° ule 1, were alike rer he waa. 
peculialy admired and ie “Sipeaually 3 in his anatomi- 
cal courfes. The famous Vefalius was prefent at one of his 
leGtures, | in which he found himfelf criticized. He i 
—_ familiarly addreffed the profeflor, faying “ why do 
u attack me w na never injured you?” ‘Are ve ou Velalius? aad 
exclaimed Fuchfiu “You fee him before you’’ 
men. Fuchtius was fo 
the great Cofmo duke of Tufcany invited him, with the 
offer of a falary of 600 crowns, to become apetenel of © 
medicine at Pifa, which he declined. The emperor 
Charles V. alfo bore teftimony to his merit, by fen din ng him 
— with the infignia of nob ity, which honour Fuchfius 
0 
from eee ng, that he for fome time declined it, 
He e was indifferen money, as well as te other = 
literary fame. His oe ambition was, whenever he un 
took in his turn the oe of the univerfity, to 
uke Uhr 
on. and more amply endowed by his fon and fu 
Fuchfius left aa him feveral ‘onpublifhed ‘botaniéal’ 
manufcripts, which received correétions atid additions to the 
lateft periods of his life, as well as many notes to-the medi- _ 
cal works he had former ly printed.—Melch. Adami, Vite 
Germ. Med.—Hialler. Bibl. Bot. S. 
A, in aay named by Phanee’ in honour a 
J 
Leonhard Fuchs, 
uchfius,, of whom an account, is 
given in the odie article. Plum. Gen t. 14. Linn. 
Gen. 53: oo 255. Willd. Sp, Pl. v. 2. 339. Mart. 
Mill Dr tices in Ait. Hort. -Kew. v. 2. 8. 
Ju gens t. 282. (Skinnera; Forft. Gen. t. es 
fl 
Quelufia; Vandell. Fl. Lufit. et Brafil. Specim. 23. t 
; 10. Nahufia ; Soe Ic. t. 21.) Clafs and onds, 
ela Monogy nid. Nat. Ord, Calycantheme, Linn 
Onagra, Jull, 
a Ch. Cal. Perianth at _— -thaped, ¢o- 
loured, four- ute its fe °m 
Nedary a note he d land crowning the pene: Stam. 
5 Filaments, 
