INTRODUCTION. 63 
Hoc semel afflatus sedat penam cruciatus. 
Jejuno stomacho potabitur addita Baccho, 
Nux ubi muscata decocta sit et macerata 
Enfraxes aperit,— 
Of his manner of treating his subject I give two 
articles as some of the shortest : 
Unguentum aureum. 
od trahit ex auro nomen, quo prevalet auro, 
Unguentum, renes lapidosos curat inunctum. 
Solvit dura, vias reserat, resolutaque purgat 
Sepius appositum, vicibus crebris renovatum. 
ia de gelidis mala discutit insita causis. 
Militat in morbis, et regnat quatuor annis °. 
Unguentum album. 
Omnis ab unguento scabies detergitur albo, 
Quam generet salsus infecti fleumatis humor’. 
The description of Salerno relates to the subject 
of this introduction : 
Urbs Pheebo sacrata, Minerve sedula nutrix, 
Fons physice, pugil eucrasie, cultrix medicine, 
Assecla nature, vite paranympha, salutis 
* Lib. iv. ver. 1081. p. 674. 
® Lib. iv. ver. 1224, 
