16 INTRODUCTION. 
caries did not prepare their drugs properly, and to 
give advice to the poor gratis. Every physician v Ss 
to visit his patient at least twice a day, and once im — 
the night if necessary, and was not to receive for his ! 
attendance more than half a golden tarena® d 
or, if called out of the city, three tarene and 
expences, or four tarene to provide himself. 
was not to undertake to cure a disorder for a specific 
sum, or to keep an apothecary’s shop, or to be i 
partnership with an apothecary. Surgeons were 
study for one year, and to be perfect in anatomy 
before they were admitted to practise. tne cal 
were to take an oath to compound th 
Frederie®. The three professions appear to i 
# A gold coin which weighed twenty grains, and would 
be worth four shillings and twopence. Qualibet uncia com| 
tata pro quinque florenis, et quolibet floreno pro sex tarenis, ¢ 
qualibet tarend pro duobus Carolinis, et quolibet Carolino pro 
decem granis. Ducange. 
% Giannone, vol. ii. p. 387. The constitutions are in many 
collections, the last is F. Pauli Canciani Barbarorum Lege’ 
Antiqui, 3 vols. fol. Venice, 1781, in vol. i. p. 367. See 
Epistles of Peter de Vineis, Frederici chancellar, lib. iii. epis 
10, 11.13. The constitution is entitled De Probabili Ex 
entia Medicorum, 
