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a deep ulcer, called a fistula. The story that the 
poison was sucked out by his affectionate wife 
during his sleep, is probably one of the romantic 
tales of that romantic period, and has been told of 
other heroes. That his cure was owing to the skill 
of the doctors of Salerno is more probable. Amidst 
the hospitality of his countrymen, the luxuries of 
y, and the endearments of his bri e, 
wasted near a year, and by this delay he lost the 
crown of England, and ended a brave but impru- 
dent life in a captivity of eight and twenty years“. 
Ill. HISTORY OF THE SCHOLA SALERNITANA. 
It is the received opinion that during Robert's 
continuance in Italy, or soon after, this poem, the 
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, was com mposed, for 
the preservation of his health, by = oe of 
Salerno“. The name, indeed, ing o 
England, to whom it is isdnes 5 is a sscianell 
* Auctor Chronici Normannorum, 4 Moreau laudatus in 
Proleg. p. 17. Gian, lib. x. cap. ii, sect. 3. p. 125. 
Gian. vol. ii. p. 125. lib. x. cap. ii. sect. 3, Muratori, 
oo oe aes iii. dissert. xliv. col. 935. Moreau onde 
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