, one of a family' of physicians of considerable eminence, was born
, one of a family' of physicians of
considerable eminence, was born at Augsburgh, Oct. 17,
1524. When he had finished his medical studies under
his father, a physician of Augsburgh, who died in 1572,
and at the university, he soon became noted as a practitioner, and in 1564 was appointed inspector of the apothecaries, and perpetual vicar to the dean of the college of
physicians. He died in 1605. He published a “Pharmacopoeia
” in Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata
a Pompeio M. ad Heraclium,
” Strasburgh, 4to and folio.
This is an excellent book of general reference, being a list
of all the coins in every reign, digested into the years in
which they were apparently struck. It was first printed
in 1579, and again in 1600, which is the best edition.
One afterwards published by Mezzabarba is not so highly
valued, as this editor’s additions are of doubtful authority.
Among Gesner’s letters is a learned “Epistola Graeca de
Oxymeli helleborato, aiiisque ad rem medicam spectantibus,
” written by Occo, who was an excellent Greek
scholar.