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Francisco Hernández, physician to Philip II of Spain spent the years 1571 – 1577 gathering information in Mexico and then wrote Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus, many versions of which have been published including one by Francisco Ximénez.

Both Hernandez and Ximenez fitted Aztec ethnomedicinal information into the European concepts of disease such as " warm ", " cold ", and " moist ", but it is not clear that the Aztec ’ s used these categories.

Juan de Esteyneffer's Florilegio medicinal de todas las enfermedas compiled European texts and added 35 Mexican plants.