INTRODUCTION. 43 
hundred lines. The vanity of dedicating the poem 
to Charlemagne, the allusion to the victory at 
Rongevaux, and the medical learning displayed in 
it, prove it to have been the work of some French 
Physician. There are copies in the Ashmolean, and 
Bodleian libraries; from which the following ex- 
tracts will fully describe their character and con- 
tents. They are headed— 
Alter usus versuum Salernitanoram. Incipiunt versus 
medicinales editi A magistris et doctoribus Salernitanis 
in Apulif, seripti Karolo magno Francorum Regi glorio- 
sissimo, Quorum opusculum in quinque partes dividitur. 
Yarum prima est de rebus homini naturalibus. Secunda, 
de rebus homini non naturalibus. Tertia, de rebus contra 
hominis naturam (i. e. diseases). Quarta, de medicinis 
simplicibus et compositis. Quinta de curis egritudinum. 
The plants and other simple medicines, are ar- 
Tanged alphabetically. 
Incipit primo prologus. 
Francorum Regi scripsit tota Schola Salerni, 
Tn metro pauca, mox commemorantia multa, 
Quo phisis regimine stanti compendio scitur, 
Cura subest prompta, languor qué tollitur weger. 
Metra juvant animos, comprendunt plurima paucis, 
Pristina commemorant, que sunt tibi grata legenti. 
Hee bene servando vitam longam tibi mando. 
Herbas in terris, coelo quot sidera cernis, 
A me tot mille verba salutis habe. 
