Hortiis Sanitatis. J^f 
Augjburghy foon after the invention of 
wooden cuts, or tables, between the years 
1475 147^* German tongue,- 
with the title of The Book of Nature,'^ 
It treats of animals and plants ; of the lat-^ 
ter, a hundred and feventy^fix kinds are no- 
ticed, and many of them figured. The work 
is made up chiefly from Pliny, IJJdore^ and 
Platearms^ 
. This book feems to have been foon fu- 
perfeded by the famous Flerbal of Mentz^ in 
1484, ftiled fimply Herbarius which 
gave rife, the next year^ to the well-known 
work Ortus Sanitatis, afcribed to 
Cuba, aphyfician oi Aiigjhurgh^ and after- 
wards of Frankfort ; who^ if not the author> 
\^as at leaft the editor of an enlarged and 
improved edition. This work, under dif- 
ferent editors, was the bafis of ail the Her-* 
bals of Europe y for many years. 
Its objeQ: is the Materia Medic a from all 
* nature; but vegetables occupy the greater 
part. The firft edition was comprifed in 
four hundred and thirty-five chapters : in 
one, printed at Venice in 1 5 1 1, which is in 
the black letter, they are extended to a 
thoufand 
