44 INTRODUCTION. 
At the end, after the epilogue : 
Explicit florarium versuum medicinalium, scriptum 
Christianissimo Regi Francoram, Carolo magno, & toté 
universitate doctorum medicinaram preclarissimi studi 
Salernitani, tempore quo idem Rex Saracenos devicit in 
Runcivalle, quod latuit usque, tarde, et Deo volente, 
nuper prodiit in lucem, 
A few specimens may be sufficient: 
De locis purgandi humores. 
Sanguis per venas purgatur, flegma veretro, 
Fel per sudores, sed melancholia retro. 
De signis mortalibus in acuté febri. 
Virtus pulmonis, cordis, stomachi, cadit, heret. 
Anxius insanit, sudatque, cruore fluente, 
Absque crisi riget, et febris auget, et absens. 
Est sitis, osque sonat, plorat, decoctio cessat. 
Livor i in extremis apparet, fronte citrina. 
Est urina minor, egestio cruda liquescit. 
Certius est signum contractio testiculorum. 
Aut si retrahitur in veretro vi virga viri 
Hee sunt signa quibus inspectio mortis pati 
Whatever be the history of it, the whole of the 
poem upon the choice of simples and medicines by 
Otho Cremonensis is incorporated into it, under the 
