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though it still figures in some of the foreign Pharmacopoeias. 
Linnaeus gave the name of Eupatorium to a genus of the 
family Synanthereae, and Vaillant to another genus of the 
same family, under the name of Eupatoriophalacron; 
The learned Meibomius has written a voluminous disser- 
tation upon the Theriac and electuary of Mithridates.* 
The empirical school includes still some physicans, whose 
names, under some title, belong to the history of Phar- 
macy. 
Hera, of Cappadocia, left like Andreas of Caristum, un- 
der the name of Nartex, a work relative to Materia Medica 
and medicinal preparations. This work embodies a descrip- 
tion of every remedy that he had himself proved to possess 
some virtue. He was the inventor of an antidote, a formula 
of which Galen has recorded : the same author quotes from 
Hera, of Cappadocia, some remarks upon the preparation of 
ointments. But of the empirics, the one who should espe- 
cially awaken our interests, on more than one account, is 
Nicander, son of Dammseus, native of Colophon in Ionia, 
contemporary with Attalus 111, Scipio Africanus, and Paul 
Emilius. Nicander had been an Apollonian priest at 
Clarus. He distinguished himself in the same time as a 
poet, physician, and naturalist. He was the author of seve- 
ral poems, all having some bearing upon the natural sciences 
and Materia Medica. The one entitled Georgica treated 
of Agriculture, and was dedicated to Attains Philometor, 
the last King of Pergamus, who declared the Romans heirs 
of his kingdom. Cicerot speaks with eulogy of this work, 
which thus far has not heen handed down to us. 
There remains to us at the present day only two poems 
of Nicander, which are devoted to natural history and 
toxicology. The first is entitled Theriaca: it contains the 
* Under the title : Be Milhridatio el Theriaca discursus. Lubeck, 
1652: in 4to. 
+ Be Oratore, lib, i. cap. 16. 
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