Garcia—See Orta.
Gerarde, John, 1545-1607, London, surgeon.—The Herball, or generall historie of plantes, 1597.
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Gesner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Zürich, the most learned naturalist of his time (See also Cordus).
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Helvetius, Jean-Claude-Adrien, 1661-1727, physician at Paris.
Hernandez, Francisco, physician to King Philip II. of Spain; he lived about the years 1561-1577 in Mexico.—Quatro libros de la naturaleza y virtutes de las plantas y animales que estan recevidos en el uso de medicina en la Nueva España.... Mexico, 1615.—We have only referred to Antonio Reccho’s translation: Nova plantarum, animalium et mineralium Mexicanorum Historia, rerum medicarum Novæ Hispaniæ Thesaurus. Romæ, 1651, fol. (first edition, 1628). Hernandez must not be confounded with G. Fernandez de Oviedo (See Fernandez).
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Hildegardis, 1099-1179, the abbess of the Benedictine monastery St. Ruprechtsberg, near Bingen (“Pinguia”) on the Rhine. Her “Physica” one of the most interesting mediæval works of its kind, is contained in tom. cxcvii. (1855) 1117-1352 of J. P. Migne’s Patrologiæ cursus completus, under the name “Subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum.... Liber i. De Plantis.