Alphita, a curious list of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations, probably compiled in the 13th century, and originally written in French (according to Häser, Geschichte der Medicin, i. 1875, 648 sqq.). Daremberg, La médecine, histoire et doctrine, 1865, attributes the Alphita to Maranchus. The Alphita is contained in Salvatore de Renzi’s Collectio Salernitana; ossia documenti inediti ... alla scuola medica Salernitana, iii. (Napoli, 1854) 270-322.
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Alpinus, Prosper, 1553-1617, Professor of Botany and “Ostensore dei Semplici,” i.e. teacher of drugs, in the University of Padua. He visited Egypt in 1580-1583. De Plantis Ægypti liber etc. Venetiis, 1592.
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Alrasis or Arrasi—See Rhazes.
Angelus a Sancto Josepho, originally Joseph Labrousse, of Toulouse, born 1636, died in 1697. He was at Ispahan as a Carmelite monk in 1664, and published in 1681 at Paris a Latin translation of what he called a Pharmacopœia Persica. Consult Lucien Leclerc, Histoire de la médecine arabe, ii. (Paris, 1876) 84.
Anguillara, Luigi (born at Anguillara, died in 1570 at Ferrara), “Ostensor simplicium,” i.e. professor of materia medica, in the University of Padova; author of Semplici, liquali in piu Pareri a diversi nobili huomini scritti appaiono. Vinegia, 1561.
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Arrianos Alexandrinos—See Periplus.