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.

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1830
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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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Oxford : D.A. Talboys, 1830.

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xix, 199 pages : illustrations, plates

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Resp: Translation by Sir John Harington Note: A famous medical poem of the Middle Ages believed to have originated from the medical school at Salerno. It contains a miscellany of advice on hygiene, diet, and simple therapeutics

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