Volume 1
The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton].
- Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
- Date:
- [1876]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tlie same subject. “ De materia medicinal!, et compositione medicamentorum,” Padua 1556, 8vo. “ Formula? aliquot remediorum, libro de internis remediis omissce” was printed as a continuation of Lobel’s Ilistoria Plantarum (Anvers, 1576, fob). “ De Theriaca tractatus” formed a ])art of A’’aleriu3 Cordus’ Dispcnsatorium Pharmacorum, in the edi- tions published at Leydcu in 1627 and 1652, 12mo.; ‘ Tractatus de Succcdaneis’ M-as included in Schwenckfeld’s Tbesaurus Pbarniaceuticus (Basle and Frankfort, 1587 fi^nd 1630). “ Consilia qme- dum Medica” were contributed to a collection of treatises published by Laurent Scholzius in 1598. But it is almost exclusively for the value of bis contributions to Natural History that any distinc- tion attaches to the name of Rondelet in the present day; and these contributions are almost entirely contained in the Avorks on Fishes already ahuded to. Tlicse are entitled, “ De piscibus marinis libri xviii., in quibus vene piscium effigies expressce sunt,” Lyons 1554, and “ Universse aquatilium historice pars altera, cum veris ipsorum originibus,” Lyons 1555. The former of those forms a folio volume of about 600 pages, and is unquestionably the most valuable work that appeared on fishes, not only up to the time of its date, but for a long Avhile afterwards. It is dedicated, in rather eloquent terms, to his patron, Cardinal do Tournon. Tlie subject is divided into eighteen books, the first four of which treat of the general jiroperties of fishes; 1st, Their differences, as derived from their mode of life, the waters which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29002151_0001_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
