INTRODUCTION. 53 
he studied physic at Salerno, under Peter Musandi- 
nus, Maurus, and Matthew Salomon, who were 
eminent physicians in the twelfth century”, and he 
ibes that place with elegance and affection 7. 
His work is dedicated to Romoaldus, who was arch- 
bishop of Salerno from 1157 to his death in 118] ®, 
and he speaks of having written it long before, and 
at Paris 74, 
Agidius Parisiensis, in a poem in honour of Char- 
lemagne, written in the popedom of Coelertine the 
second, between the years 1191 and 1198, speaks of 
im as a contemporary, then highly celebrated for 
his skill in litina ad poetry, and as having been 
born at Paris75, Inq description of the hospital at 
Corbeil, his name is said to have been Peter, and 
that he was of the family of the counts of Corbeil”. 
tis work of Aigidius Corboliensis is on the 
Virtues and Praises of Compound Medicines, and is a 
poem in hexameter verse, consisting of four thousand 
_™ Lib. i. ver. 93, 98, 107; p. 509, line 145, ; p. 510. lib. ii. 
line 1, 28, 31, 
™ Lib. ili. line 465, etc, p- 593, 
” Lib, ;. line 130, etc, p- 510. 
Lib. i, ete, 505. : 
® In Carolino, lib, y, In Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Script. 
Vol. y, p. 323, 
® By Petit, in J ournal de Medicine for September, 1786. 
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