INTRODUCTION. 13 
cines, which was thought to have been the summit 
of medical knowledge. It was commented upon by 
John Platearius, in the middle of the twelfth cen- 
tury, and many other writers”*. Musandinus wrote 
upon Diet, Maurus upon Urine and Phlebotomy. 
The specific works of John Castalius, Matthew 
Solomon, and Richardus Senior, are not enumerated. 
There were other learned men who studied medicine 
at Salerno in that century, but removed to other 
places, such as saint Bruno, bishop of Signia, ar 
wards abbot of Casino, again bishop, and who 
in 1126; Romualdus the second, archbishop of Sa 
lerno Sin 1157 to 1181, who attended William 
king of Sicily as his physician in 1127; Saladinus 
Asculanus, physician to the prince of Tarentum in 
1163, 
Nor was the healing art confined to men only, 
there were many of the fair sex who were celebrated 
for their medical skill. The time when most of 
them flourished is uncertain, but probably in the 
eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. Or- 
dericus Vitalis speaks of a woman unequalled in 
*8 Antidotarium Nicholai cum Expositione J. Platearii. Ve- 
~ 1589. 
*° Agidius Corboliensis, vide post. Peter Diaconus, Mazza, 
ete, 
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