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
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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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    INTRODUCTION. I. HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO. The city of Salerno, tlie earliest school in Christian Europe where medicine was professed, taught, and practised, enjoyed every advantage which could be derived from a delicious climate^ a spacious harbour, a river, and a fertile and variegated country. Yet ZEgidius Corboliensisj a writer of the twelfth century, informs US;, that even at that time the air was bad, and afForded exercise to the skill of the physicians. Originally a Roman colony, it experienced the va- rious fortunes of the western empire. Upon the extinction of the dominion of the Goths, it be- came subject to the eastern empire, was soon after conquered by the Lombards^ and^ in their political arrangements, it formed part of the dutchy of Bene- vento. When Charlemagne destroyed the Lombard kingdom of Italy, the dukes of Benevento, who had