List of physicians and apothecaries cited by Andrew Slee and John Ward

V.a.398 is a 1654 volume of medicinal recipes compiled by Andrew Slee, a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1650-1656.

This list was compiled by Dr. Robert Tallaksen, a reader and transcriber at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

NB: Latinized names listed may be abbreviated, or appear in manuscripts in the genitive (-ae, -i, -onis), accusative (-am, -em, -um) or ablative cases (-a, -e, -o) In transcription, all surnames are expanded and transcribed in the nominative unless Slee writes them out in the genitive, accusative, or ablative; e.g., Nicolai, Galenum, Fallopio.

The names of scientists have been included even if their work was not primarily medical. In most cases, names which proved to be clergy have been omitted from this list unless the persons had some direct connection with John Ward (JW)

Persons named by Slee are indicated with a dagger (†) Persons named by Ward are indicated with an asterisk (*)

Identified physicians and apothecaries

A

Actuarius †

Iohannes Zacharius Actuarius (c. 1275 - c. 1328), Byzantine physician in Constantinople; actuarius was a title applied to various officials

Aetius †

Aetius of Amida (c. 502 - 575), Byzantine Greek physician

Agricola *

Georg Pawer or Bauer (1494 - 1555), German humanist scholar, mineralogist, and metallurgist, Latinized as Georgius Agricola (Bauer = "farmer"); studied medicine in Bologna

Aldovrandi *

Ulysse Aldovrandi (1522 - 1605), Italian naturalist, second director of botanical garden of the University of Bologna

Alphans. †

likely St. Alfanus I (d. 1085), physician, theologian, translator, and author; Archbishop of Salerno 1080 -85), on the faculty of the medical school at Salerno

Alston *

"Dr. in physick" at Christchurch Hospital, possibly Sir Edward Alston (1597 - 1669), president of the RCP, 1655- 66

Andro., Androm.

Andromachus; either the Elder or the Younger; both fl. 1st c. CE; Greek physicians; the elder's name is preserved in "theriaca Andromachi," an antidote of 64 ingredients including opium and viper's flesh

Aquapendente †

see Hieronymus Fabricius Aquapendente, below

Arcaeus, Arcei †

Francesco de Arce (1493 - 1573), Spanish physician and surgeon, Latinized as Arcaeus

Aristoteles *†

Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE), Greek philosopher and polymath

Athenaeus *

Athenaeus of Naucratis (fl. late 2d - early 3rd c. CE), Greek rhetorician and grammarian

Atwood *

Mr., an oculist in Worcestershire; possibly Thomas Atwood, who consulted on Samuel Johnson in 1711

Avicen., Avicenna *†

Ibn Sina, Abu Ali Sina, or Pur Sina (c. 980 - 1037), Persian physician and polymath; author of The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine

Azaravii, Azaravius †

Abu Al Qasim Al-Zahrawi (936 - 1013), Arab Andalusian physician, surgeon, and chemist, Latinized as Azaravius or Albucasis; "father of modern surgery"

B

Bacon *

Sir Francis Bacon, (1561 - 1626), English philosopher and statesman, father of empiricism

Barker *

possibly Sir Richard Barker (d. 1686), chemist and physician; founder member of the Society of Chemical Physicians; author of The Excellency and Usefulnesse of the True Spirit of Salt, 1663, and Sudorificum Regale, 1676; Israel Tonge (of the Popish Plot) lodged with him and Barker was instrumental in bringing Tonge and Titus Oates into communication

Bartholine *

Danish physicians; possibilities include Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585 - 1629); Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655 - 1738) - Bartholin's gland is so called after him; Rasmus Bartholin (1625 - 1698); but most likely Thomas Bartholin (1616 - 1680), who first described the lymphatic system in humans

Bartholomeus Perdulcis †

Barthélemy Pardoux (1545 - 1611), French physician, Latinized as Bartholomeus Perdulcis; author of Universa medicina (another book with the same title was written by Fernel)

Bates *

George Bate (1608 - 1669), English physician, MD FRS; physician to Charles II; wrote an account of Charles I's confrontation with Parliament under the pseudonym "Theodoricus Veridicus;" author of Pharmacopoiea Bateana; JW refers to him consistently as "Bates"

Bathurst *

physician in Oxford; probably not the John Bathurst (d. 1659), MD Cambridge 1637, who practiced in Yorkshire and London

Bauderon *

Brice Bauderon (1539 - 1623), French physician; author of a highly regarded pharmacopoiea (1583)

Bauhinus *

Jean Bauhin (1511 - 1582), French physician; or his sons Gaspard (Caspar) (1560 - 1624), or Jean (Johann) (1541 - 1613), Swiss botanists

Bayerus, Bayrus †

Pietro Bairo of Turin (1468 - 1518), Italian physician, Latinized as Petrus Bayrus; author of Secreti Medicinali

Beckerus, Daniel *

German physicians; either Daniel Beckher the Elder (1594 - 1655), the "Prussian Hyppocrates;" or the Younger (1627 - 1670); Latinized as Beckerus

Beguinus *†

Jean Beguin (1550 - 1620), French iatrochemist, Latinized as Beguinus; wrote first textbook of chemistry (as opposed to alchemy), Tyrocinium Chymicum, 1610

Bericellus *

Giulio Cesare Baricelli (c. 1574 - c. 1638), Italian physician and philosopher; Latinized as Julius Caesar Baricellus; spelled "Bericellus" by JW; author of Thesaurus Secretorum; mentioned (as Baracellus) in Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy

Bernardus Paternus *

Bernardino Paternò (d. 1592), Italian physician, Latinized as Bernardinus Paternus Salonensis (of Salona in Croatia, then under Venetian rule); mentioned by Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy; spelled "Bernardus" by JW

Biggs *

Noah Biggs (fl. mid-17th c.), English medical practitioner and social reformer; perhaps a pseudonym for Henry Biggs because of his employment at the dockyards of Deptford and Woolwich (DNB)

Bobart *

Jacob Bobart the Elder (1599 - 1680), German botanist, born in Braunschweig, emigrated to England c. 1640; JW's contemporary, superintendent of the Oxford Physic Garden, sometimes referred to simply as Jacob; succeeded as superintendent by his son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641 - 1719)

Boghil *

Robert Boyle, q. v.

Box the Drugster *

Henry Box (1585 - 1662), a highly regarded English druggist in Cheapside; The Henry Box School founded by him (1660) in his home town of Witney, Oxfordshire, is still in operation

Boyle *

Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691), FRS, Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and physician (Doctor of Physic, Oxford, 1665 - the only academic degree he ever achieved (DNB))

Briggs *

William Briggs (1642 - 1704), English physician and oculist; author of Ophtalmographia, on the anatomy of the eye, 1676

Bullialdus *

Ismaël Boulliau (1605 - 1694), French astromomer and mathematician, Latinized as Ismael Bullialdus, early defender of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo

Burnet *

possibly Alexander Burnet (d. 1665), English physician, MD Cambridge 1648; Pepys' physician, and who died of the plague; or Sir Thomas Burnet (1638 - 1704), Scottish physician; wrote Thesaurus medicinae and Hyppocrates contractus, an abridgement in Latin of selected works of Hyppocrates; physician to Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, and Queen Anne

Bush *

Paul Bush (1489/90 - 1558), English clergyman; "well read in physick as well as divinitie," first Bishop of Bristol

C

Cass.

Cassius; probably Cassius Felix (fl. 5th. c. CE); or possibly Cassius Iastorophista (fl. 2nd or 3rd c. CE)

Dr. Collins

(probably) Samuel Collins (1617 - 1685)

Colon

likely Fabio Colonna (1567 - 1640); but identification uncertain, p. 46 c. 1, p. 47 c. 1

Cord., Cord9, Cordus

Valerius Cordus (1515 - 44); possibly also in error as "Crodus," p. 29 c. 2 and p. 41 c. 2

Crollius

Oswald Croll, Latinized as Crollius (c. 1563 - 1609)

Damocrates, Damocratis

Servilius Damocrates (mid- to late 1st c. CE)

Eudemi

Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 BCE - c. 300 BCE)

Fallop., Fallopius

Gabriele Falloppio, Latinized as Gabrielis Falloppius (1523 - 1562)

Favent., Faventini

Benedictus Victorius Faventinus (b. 1481)

Fern., Fernel., Fernelius, Fernelianus

Jean François Fernel, Latinized as Ioannes Fernelius (1497 - 1558)

Fienus

Thomas Fienus (1567 - 1631)

Foesi

Anuce Foës, Latinized as Anutius Foësius (1528 - 1595)

Fons., Fonsec., Roderici Fonsecae

Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca (1451 - 1524)

Forest

Pieter van Foreest, Latinized as Petrus Forestus (1521 - 1597)

Fracastorii

Girolamo Fracastori, Latinized as Fracastorius (1483 - 1553)

Gabriellis

see Fallopius, above

Galen., Galeni., Galeno, Galenum, Galenus

Aelius or Claudius Galenus (of Pergamon) (129 - c. 200); one instance of "Gallenus"

Gesnerus (or Gesnerus maius, "the greater")

Conrad Gessner (1516 - 1565)

Gheselii

uncertain but possibly Johannes Gheselius (1613 - 1650)

Gilberti Angli

Gilbertus Anglicus (c. 1180 - c. 1250)

Gordonii, Gordonio, Gordonius

Bernard de Gordon (1285 - 1318)

Haly

'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, or Masoudi; Latinized as Haly Abbas (930 - 994)

Hieronymus Fabricius Aquapendente

Girolamo Fabrizio, Latinized as Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (1537 - 1619); Acquapendente is a small town in the province of Viterbo

Hollerius

Jacques Houiller, Latinized as Iacobus Hollerius Stampani (i.e., from Étampes), (c. 1498 - 1562)

Hurn., Hurnius

Johan van Heurne, Latinized as Johannes Heurnius (1543 - 1601)

Langii

uncertain; either Johann Lange (1485 - 1565) or Johann Christian Lange (1619 - 1662)

Leplignius, Lepleignius

Thibault Lespleigney (1496 - 1550); misspelled as "Lepleingius," p. 75 c. 2

Dr. Lower

possibly Richard Lower (1631 - 1691); while the dates don't match up, he is only mentioned at the beginning of the book on f. 2r, and in a different hand

Iacobi de Manlis

Giovanni Giacomo (da) Manlio or de Bosco, Latinized as Ioannes Iacobus de Manliis (fl. late 15th - mid 16th c.)

Mathei de Gradi

Giovanni Matteo Ferrari de Gradi (? - 1472)

Matthioli, Matthiolum, Matthiolus

Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501 - 77)

Mercurialis

Girolamo Mercuriali (1530 - 1606)

Mes., Mesue (one instance of "Messue")

Yuhanna Ibn Masawaiyh (c. 777 - 857)

Dr. Meverell, Meverill

Othowell Meverall (1585 - 1648)

Montagnana

Bartolomeo da Montagnana (fl. 1422 - 1460)

Montanus

Giovanni Battista Monte, Latinized as Montanus (1497 - 1557)

Musa

Antonius Musa, physician to Augustus (fl. 23 CE)

Nicol., Nicolai

Nicola Deoprepio, a.k.a. Niccolo da Reggio (1280 - ?)

Palmarii

Pierre le Palmier, Latinized as Petrus Palmarius (1568 - 1610)

Philonium

an electuary, possibly referring to Johann Philonius Dugo Tilianus (d. 1553) or Philo of Tarsus (fl. 1c)

Plinius

Gaius Plinius Secundus or Pliny the Elder (c. 23/24 - 79 CE)

Primiros., Primirosius

James Primrose or Primerose (d. 1659)

Quaercitanus, Quercitani, Quercitanus

Joseph du Chesne, Latinized as Iosephus Quercetanus (c. 1544 - 1609)

Radulph. Holland.

Radulphus Holandicus (? - ?); appears only in "Pulv. Radulph. Holland." on p. 43 c. 2, and in J. Quincy, Pharmacopoia Officinalis & Extemporanea (1742) mentioning a "Pulvis Radulphi Holandicus from its first Contriver"

Dr. Reade

Alexander Read (1586? - 1641)

Renod., Renodaeus, Renodeus

Jean de Renou (1568 - c. 1620)

Rhacis, Rhasis

Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Latinized as Rhazes or Rasis (854 - 925)

Rondolet

Guillaume Rondelet (1507 - 1566)

Ruffi

Rufus of Ephesus (fl. late 1st - early 2nd c.); only as "pilulae Ruffi," Rufus' pills

Ruland., Rulandi, (Martinus) Rulandus

Martin Ruland; either the Elder (1532 - 1602) or the Younger (1569 - 1611)

Sala, Angelus

Angelo Sala (1576 - 1617)

Saxon.

Ercole Sassonia, Latinized as Hercules Saxonia (1551 - 1607)

Sennert. or Sinnert.

Daniel Sennert (1572 - 1637); also as Daniel Sinnert, or Latinized as Sinnertus

Siluius, Silvius

Francis Silvius (1416 - 72)

Trincavel, Trinchavel

Vettore Trincavella (1496 - 1568)

Valesco, Valescus, or Valescus de Tar(r)anta

Vasco, Velasco, or Valescus de Taranta (1382 - 1417)

Weck., Wecker, Weckerus (one instance of Vecker, p. 29)

Johannes Jacob Wecker (1528 - 1586)

Unidentified physicians and apothecaries

Alphons Ferrarius, p. 25 c. 2

possibly Alfonso Ferrarri (?) of Cremona; also "Ferrarius," ibid.

Dr Bar, p. 16 c. 3

Dr Baron, p. 19 c. 1

Dr. Betone, p. 19, c.2

Dr. Butcher Ipswicens (from Ipswich?), f. 1v

Dr. Collins, p. 48 c. 2

Euonimus, p. 77 c.2

Fienus, p. 18 c. 1

Gheselli, p. 60 c.2

Mo Goad, p. 48 c. 2

Dr. Goldsmith, p. 52 c. 1

Dr. Hale Chyrurgicus, p. 34 c. 2

Dr. Harvey, p. 87 c. 2

(possibly the William Harvey of De motu cordis fame (1578 - 1657))

Hast., Haust., p. 61 c. 1, p. 62 c. 1 & c. 3

Iohanni, p. 17 c. 1

Dr. Lister

(not the 19th c. pioneer of antisepsis), p. 19 c. 1

Dr. Lower, f. 2r

Radulph. Holland.

Radulphus Hollandicus (see above)

Dr. Reade, p. 33 c.2, p. 69 c. 1

(likely the same as Alexander Read, above)

Roberto, p. 19 c. 2

("experto crede Roberto," = "trust Robert the Expert")

Saxonius, pp. 27, 30, 68

(scattered occurrences; likely in error for Saxonia)

Dr. Stephani, p.24 c.1

Dr. Stookes, p. 48 c. 1

Vraliano, p. 15 c. 3

Dr Walletus, p. 68 c. 2

Referred to by initials only

D. L., p.29

"Syr. Casselanus D. L."

Dr. L. p. 44, c. 2

Sir R. L S., f. 1r

Dr. W., p. 22 c. 1

R. W.

"Syr: Pectoralis R. W.," p. 27 c 1.

Other

Aug., August., Augustan., Augustana, Augustina

Pharmacopoeia Augustana; many editions, earliest 1573

Casselanus

from or related to the city of Kassel in Hesse