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Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturæ botanicæ. 1872.
Acosta, Christóbal, physician at Burgos; he travelled in the east and visited Mosambique and Cochin; died a.d. 1580.—Tractado de las Drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales con sus Plantas debuxadas al biuvo por Christoual Acosta medico y cirujano que las vio ocularmente. Burgos, 1578. Small 4°, 448 pages (and 38 pages indices). There are translations in Latin by Clusius, 1582; in Italian, 1585; in French by Antoine Colin, 1619, etc.
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Actuarius, Johannes, a physician to the court of Constantinople, towards the end of the 13th century, author of “Methodus medendi,” and “De medicamentorum compositione.” Both these works were repeatedly printed during the 16th century; we are not aware of any recent editions.
Ægineta—See Paulos.
Aëtius of Amida, now Diarbekir, on the upper Tigris. He wrote, probably about a.d. 540-550, Aëtii medici græci ex veteribus medicinæ Tetrabiblos. Basileæ, 1542.
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Albertus Magnus (Count Albert von Bollstädt), 1193-1280, a Dominican monk, Bishop of Regensburg (Ratisbon).—Alberti Magni ex ordine Prædicatorum De vegetabilibus libri vii., historiæ naturalis pars xviii. Edit. E. Meyer and C. Jessen. 1867.