Wooden Cuts. i^j 
It does not appear that Cuba was pub- 
licly known as the author of the Hortus 
Sanitatis^ until Egenolf, a bookfdier 
of Franlrfortj gave an improyed editioOj, 
"with an entirely new fet of figures, under 
the care of Eucharius Rhodion or Ro^ 
ESLiN^ a phyiician of the fame city, in 
1533. Egenolf s book palTed through va- 
rious editions, until a better work was ccm- 
pofed by DoRSTEN^ under the title of Bo- 
tanicon^'' in 154.0, at Frankfort y in which 
the fame figures were employed. They 
were ufed alfo in the Encyclopedia Medico" 
of J. Dryander, in 1542; and m the 
fucceeding year, in an edition of Diosco- 
RiDEs, by Hermann Rvff^ printed by Ege- 
nolf. Finally 3. Adam Lonicer, the fon- 
in-law of Egenolf^ having totally reformed 
the work of Cuba, employed them in his 
HerbaL printed in i C4.6. In fucceeding 
editions, he introduced new figures, took 
others from Tragus to the number in 
the whole of 880, and comoofed a work, 
which palled through a great number of 
editions, and was not iiiperfeded in the 
prefent century^, as appears by an edition 
