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

Flora ; George Ruuiphius, his Herbal Amboyana; John Burman, a Catalogue of Ceylonian Plants. In Sweden, the greatest of all botanists, the immortal Charles Lin- naeus, published his numerous works. Francis Mar que t wrote his Plants of Lorraine; James Spielman, the Prodromus Florae Argentinensis; Sebastian Valliant, his Botanical Parisieuse ; John Martyn, his Historia Plan- tarium Rariorum; William Houston, a Catalogue of Plants; John Sibthorpe, Florae Oxoniensis; Richard Pultenay, his Progress of Botany in England; Patrick Blair, Botanic Essays; Charles Alston, his Tyrocinium Botanicum Edibergense; John Clayton, his Florae Vir- ginicae; John Mitchell, the Principles of Botany. " In the early part of the present century, James Smith published his English Botany; Dominic Villars, his Natural History of the Plants of Dauphany; Charles Wildenow, his Species Plantarum. Later, Francis Porcher wrote his Resources of Southern Fields and Forests." "Hold!" cried Athothis. "I'll admit that modern physicians have contributed somewhat to a knowledge of botany." "Look at the department of natural history," con- tinued Paulus Androcydes. " In the sixteenth century, William Bondellet wrote his Ichthyology; Hippolitus Salviana, a Treatise on Fishes; LHysses Aldrovandus, his History of Birds and Insects. " In the seventeenth century, John Swammerdam pub- lished his General History of Insects. " In the eighteenth century, Philbert Commerson wrote on Ichthyology; Peter Ardeti, his Bibliotheca Ichthyo- logica; John Fabricus, his Systema Entomologiae; John Erxleben, his Principles of Natural History; Peter Cam- per, a Natural History; Hans Sloane, The Natural History