Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

the tender ties of home and kindred, and too often, alas! dies of disease and want a stranger in savage lands. He it is who enriches the materia medica and supplies an unappreciative world with remedies against human ills. Among the physicians who have won unfading laurels in the botanical field only a few need be noted. " In the early part of the sixteenth century, Leonard Fuchsias, after whom the beautiful fuchsia is called, wrote his History of Plants. In the same century Melchior Guillandius published his essay on Papyrus; Leonard Ranwolf, his Flora Orientalis; Caesaralpinus, his Treatise de Plantis; James Dalechamps, a History of Plants ; John Banhinus, his Historia Plantarum Universalis; Gasper Banhinus, Theatrum Botanicum; and John Gerard, a History of Plants. " In the seventeenth century, Maurice Hoffman wrote his Catalogus Plantarum Hortens; Prospero Alpini, De Plantis iEgypti; Ovid Montalbani, his Index Plantarium and Bibliotheca Botanica; Anthony Jusseu, his Progress of Botany; Olan Rudbeck, Catalogue of Iceland Plants ; Gaspard Pelletier, Plants of Iceland; Simoni Pauli, his Flora Danica; and Leonard Plunkendt, his Almagestum Botanicum. " In the eighteenth century, Andrew Rivinus wrote In- troductio in Rem Herbarium ; Michel Valentin, his Am- phitheatrum Zootomicum; John Gmelin, the Siberian Flora; John Dillenius, the father of cryptogamic botany, his Catalogue of the Plants of Giessen; John Hedwig, his Cryptogamia; Nicholas Jacquin, his Florce Austriacoe ; George Oeder, Floroe Danicse; John Zannichelli, his Catalogum Plantarum Terrestrium Marina; John Toz- zetti, Usu Plantarum in Medicina; Domini Civillo, his Neapolitana Flora; Charles Allioni, his Piedmontese