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tions, Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, or Flos 
Medicine, though written in the name of the whole 
School of Salerno, is usually attributed to: John: de’ 
Milano. His name is affixed to it in many manu- 
scripts, one as old as 1418, but whether it occurs: 
in any which are antecedent to the fifteenth century 
is doubtful, nor is it to be found in the earliest 
printed editions. Arnaldus de Villa Nova, the first 
commentator on the work, and who died in 1363, 
states only that it was published by the doctors of 
Salerno. The name of John de Milano does not 
appear in the catalogues of the learned men of that 
university, in the Chronicle of Casino, or the Con- 
tinuation by Peter Diaconus. Nor is he mentioned 
by Egidius Corboliensis, who enumerates the most 
celebrated physicians of that place at that period. 
vet-that it should be so generally ascribed, in later 
and undeviating tradition, and ancient authorities, it 
is difficult to conceive. 
Who he was, where he lived, or what share he 
had in the poem, are equally unknown. There 
Was indeed a John, a monk of mount Casino, said 
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