Joannes Dantzius

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- 1546

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Johannes Dantzius/Johannes Danz (?, Asti – 1546, Frankfurt am Main) lived in Germany and Italy. He was a physician as well as a keen botanist, active in Frankfurt am Main. He produced several books, including 'Tabulae simplicium medicamentorum, quae apud Dioscoridem, Galenum et Plinium sunt' which was published in Basel in 1543. It contains lists of herbal medicines in the writings of Dioscurides, Galen and Pliny.

His work 'Univerales Ioannis Mesue canones (…) cum Iacobi Sylvii annotationibus in eosdem' is the first and only edition of a display of the medical samples from the works of the esteemed Arabic physician Mesue the younger, also known as Masawaih-al-Mardini. This book was published at Basel in 1545.

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