52 INTRODUCTION. 
and the spurious Macer. In imitation of these and 
the Schola Salerni, verse was adopted as a conve- 
nient vehicle for medical science. In later times 
the work of Eobanus Hesse, De tuenda bon vale- 
tudine, and the Coena Baptiste Frire Mantuani, are 
classical poems and have been often printed™ =~ 
Higidius Corboliensis is an author of the twelfth 
century, who requires a more particular detail, as his 
work upon compound medicines throws a consider- 
able light upon the state of Salerno about the period 
of the Schola Salerni, and has supplied many mate- 
rials for this introduction 7°, For his history I think 
we have little which can be depended upon beyond 
the internal evidence of his poem. He states that 
® As in Jo. Sigismundi Henninger’s Quadriga Secriptorum 
Dizteticorum eo 
7 From the similarity of the name, this author has been 
confounded with an A®gidius Atheniensis, who is said to have 
flourished in 700, and wrote two poetical works, De Pulsibus 
et Urinis. Trith, 
. 
these in Pegge’s Life 
P- 268, Chalmer’s Biog. Dict. etc, Leyser’s account is very 
confused, p, 499, 4 
