FUCHS, LEONHARD German physician and botanist, was born at Wembdingen, Bavaria, on Jan. 17, 1501, and studied at Ingolstadt, receiving his M.D. in 1524. Having adopted Protestantism, he wandered from place to place, in 1529 successfully treating the "English sweating sickness," which had spread to the Continent. In 1535 he became professor of medicine at Tubingen, where he remained till his death, on May 1o, 1566. His most valuable work is the herbal, De leistoria stirpium (Basle, 1542) . The genus fuchsia is named after him. His collected works were published at Frankfurt in 1566.