1^6 CHAPTER 12. 
pended fo much on habit, they fpoke to 
the eye^ and often difcriminated the fubjed, 
when the laboured defcription failed. • 
It has been before obfcrved, that Se- 
GUiER is of opinion the firil Herbal with 
wooden cuts was the P^ic6 der NaturJ* 
The Book of Nature/' printed at Aiigj"-- 
burgh ^ in 1478^ if not three years earlier. 
Thefe are thought to have palled into the 
Herbarius, printed 'Sit Mentz in 1484; 
from which book was compiled the Ortus 
Sanitatis^ printed at the fame place in 
1485 ; with improvements in the work in 
general^ and better figures^ by Cuba. Of 
this work fome notice has before been taken, 
as the foundation of the Englifh Grete 
Herbal/' firft printed here in 1516. 
Trie H o R T u s S A N I T a T I s was t ran dated 
into various languages, and in fome new- 
modelled, without concealing its origin, 
according to the fancy of different editors 
■and printers ; and palled through innume- 
rable editions on the Continent; having: 
been the popular bock on the fubjed", as 
the Grete HerbaP' was in England, for fifty 
or fiXty years. 
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