Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todtenfeld (1645–1724)Dates from (Czech language); name is given there as Hertod. was a German physician and writer, born in the town Nikolsburg, today Mikulov in Moravia.
He is known for his 1671 work Crocologia, entirely devoted to saffron. He was also an alchemical writer, in the Epistolam contra Philalethem,He used a pseudonym, Orpheus. See :pl:Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica for his inclusion in a 1670 collection. a botanical and geological in Tartaro-Mastix Moraviae (1669),Chapter available online : PDF in Latin and Czech. and a medical in Opus mirificum sextae diei (1670).
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