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Mizauld, Antoine (1524?-1578) 
Ills works have little value as practical hor¬ 
ticulture, tho usually noted in the history and 
bibliography of gardening. Gibault, Jour. Soc. 
Nat. Hort. France (1905)» p.719t refers to them 
as a collection of absurd receipts. Their chief 
aim was the cultivation of medicinal plants, and 
the dietetic and therapeutic value and utiliza¬ 
tion thereof. 
His numerous titles are mostly referable to 
four originals reissued or recombined in various 
forms. In I 560 were published his "Secretorum 
agri enchiridion" and a tract comprising his "De 
hortensium arborum insiti*one" and "Dendranatome". 
Two works on medicinal plants and their uses, 
"Alexikepus" and "Nova et mira artificia", were 
published in 15^4 anci soon translated into Ger¬ 
man. All four of these were several times reis¬ 
sued before 1576 » when they came out under the 
title "Historia hortensium", which was translat¬ 
ed into French as a whole by Andr^ Caille, some¬ 
times called "De la Caille". The Latin works 
were again reissued, possibly in slightly con¬ 
densed form, as "Opusculorum pars prima", 1607 , 
(MFW) 
Alexikepus, seu Auxiliaris hortus. Lutetiae, apud F. 
Morellum, 1564* 267 p. (Dept. Agr.) 
> Appended; "Dioclis Caristii epistola ad Anti- 
gonum, de tuenda valetudine per hortensia", 6 1. 
Lutetiae, apud F. Morellum, 1565* 267 p. (Bib. 
Nat. Paris; Brit. Mus.; Harvard; Surg. Gen. Lib.) 
Apparently identical with the preceding. 
- Lutetiae, apud F. Morellum, 1574* 107 f(Bib. 
Nat. Paris; Brit. Mus.; Harvard) 
-- Coloniae, apud loannem Gymnicum, 157^. 200 p. 
(Arn. Arb.; Boston Pub. Lib.; Mass. Hort. Soc.; Surg. 
Gen. Lib.) 
