Note 808 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.
Reading edition
Hernandez, Nova Plantarum, etc. The MSS., comprising 24 books of text and 11 books of plates, were sent to the Escurial in Spain, and from them abridged editions were published in Mexico, 1615, and Rome, 1651. The latter edition is the one in my collection. Sahagun also devotes considerable space to a description of herbs and their properties. Hist. Gen., tom. iii., lib. x., xi.