INTRODUCTION. 5] 
poems in imitation of it®. In the year 1477 was 
printed, Pulcherrimum et utilissimum opus ad sani- 
tatis conservationem, in prose, and in alphabetical 
order, by Benedict de Nursia, physician to Francis 
Sforza, duke of Milan, dedicated to pope Nicholas 
the fifth. There is a small treatise of only seven 
leaves by Thaddeus de Florentia, entitled De re- 
gimine salutis secundum quatuor partes anni. He 
flourished about 1280. At the end is a colophon— 
et industria Dominici de Lapis, impendio 
tamen Sigismundi & Libris civis atque librarii Bono- 
niensis, 
I have before mentioned that Magninus, or May- 
nus, a physician of Milan, having made some altera- 
Hons in Villa Nova’s treatise De Regimine Salutis, 
claimed the work as his own. It was printed very 
early in his name: as at Louvain by John de West- 
Phalia in 1482, and in 1486. At Paris by Udeline 
Gering in 1483, at Basil by Nicholas Kesler in 
1493, and often subsequently. 
Before the Schola Salerni were many ancient 
Peems upon medical subjects. In Greek there were 
Nicander, Rufus Ephesius, and Marcellus Sidetes. 
In Latin, Serenus Sammonicus, Fannius Palemon, 
* Fabric, Bib. Lat. vol. iii, lib. iv. cap. xii. Schenk. Bib, 
Med, 
