Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke.

Date:: 1830

Credit: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$Vim chronicis morbis, quos fundat longior aetas, Ingerit, et proprius compellat stringere metas, 1. 48. In the Italian translation these lines are adopted into the text: Un rio, un lago, un fonte, un fiumicello, Un specchio, un prato, e qual si sia verdura, A gli occhi dan conforto, e al cervello. La mattina nei monti e la pastura Degli occhi, e verso sera cercherai Fonti e ruscelli, per colli, o per pianura. 1. 54. So the English proverb, After dinner sit a while After supper wa\k a mile. 1. 77. Ingeniumque acuit, replet, minuit quoque, offa. This seems a contradiction. It may either mean, that by in- creasing good humours it lessens the bad ones, or it may refer to two difFerent kinds of sop, that in soup, which is nourishing, cr in water, which starves the body, or it is better explained by the other reading. 1. 91. For defuncta, some MSS. have sugendo—de siccd— sunt auciio. 1. 98. Fabis. Macer says they are good for the gout, if mixed with fat and applied externally. Anseris adjuncta huic pinguedo recens, vel ovilla Si fuerit, podagrae quoque subvenit hac ratione. Macer, 86. 1. 101. Buglossa.$