but most prominently for being accused of deforming Hernández's manuscript. Reaction to Hernández's work The Reception of American Drug in Europe, 1500-1650, by J. Worth Estes, included topics such as guaiacum, balsams, jalap, sassafras, tobacco, and cacao. Hernandez's scholars, José María López Piñero and his colleague José Pardo Tomás, gave an overview and assessed Hernández's contribution to all European botany and materia medica. Their attention was on vanilla, tomato, and corn. Another individual who gave a different illustration of the foods described by Hernandez was María José López Terrada. She traced issues, such as the religious symbolism associated with the passion flower or the established myths that surrounded the sunflower. Today, two postscripts, one by David Hayes-Bautista and the other by Simon Varey and Rafael Chabrán, record the continuation of “a popular tradition of Mexican medicine in Mexico and parts of the U.S. today”. Legacy Francisco Hernández is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of lizards: Corytophanes hernandesii and Phrynosoma hernandesi. Plumier (1703) dedicated him the plant genus Hernandia, which was later accepted by Linnaeus (1753), in the family Hernandiaceae. References Further reading Alfredo de Micheli-Serra. Médicos y medicina en la Nueva España del Siglo XVI. Gaceta Médica de México. May/June 2001, vol.137, no.3 ISSN 0016-3813 Fundació Catalunya-Amèrica Sant Jeroni de la Murtra revista RE (Edición castellano), "El preguntador" Volume 5. Number 45. pp. 57–60. July 1999. Sandra I. Ramos Maldonado (2006). “Tradición pliniana en la Andalucía del siglo XVI: a propósito de la labor filológico del Doctor Francisco Hernández”, en M. Rodríguez-Pantoja (ed.), Las raíces clásicas de Andalucía. Actas del IV congreso Andaluz de Estudios Clásicos (Córdoba, 2002), Córdoba: Obra social y Cultural Caja Sur, 2006, pp. 883–891. . External links Works by Francisco Hernández in the Internet Archive. Spanish naturalists Spanish ornithologists Spanish zoologists Novohispanic Mesoamericanists 1514 births 1587 deaths Explorers of Mexico People of New Spain People from Toledo, Spain 1570s in Mexico 16th-century Latin-language writers 16th-century Spanish physicians Spanish exploration in the Age of Discovery Court physicians