14 INTRODUCTION. 
medicine in 1059. Abella wrote a poem in two — 
books, De Atrabile et de Natur Seminis Humani. — 
Mercuriadis composed books, De Crisibus, de Febre — 
Pestilenti, de Curatione Vulnerum, de Unguentis. — 
Rebecca, a work De Febribus, de Urinis, et de Em- — 
bryone. Trotta or Trottula’s book De Mulierum — 
Passionibus ante, in, et post, partum, is allowed to * 
be a forgery. Sentia Guerna lectured in medicine, : 
physician a Manfred king of Sicily, and the auth : 
and adviser of the Sicilian Vespers. | 
When the Regimen Sanitatis was written, the 
professors contented themselves with the humble — 
title of the School of Salerno. By the privileges of : 
subsequent sovereigns it was gradually constituted 4 4 
* Robertus Mala-Corona Physice scientiam tam oneal 
habuit, ut in urbe Psalernitana, ubi maxime medicorum schole — 
ab antiquo tempore habentur, neminem in medicinali arte, — 
preter quandam sapientem mulierem, sibi parem inveninet 4 
— Vital. Ecel. Hist. lib. iii. ad annum 1057. a 
€gidius Corbol.; Diaconus; Mazza, etc. 
