NOTES 
TO THE 
SCHOLA SALERNI. 
Line 9. Requies. Some copies read labor, but this is evidently 
Wrong. It has often been observed, that rest and abstinence 
14. Lote, cale: sta, pranse, vel i: frisgesce minute. 
This line is not without its difficulties. Lote and pranse are 
Vocative cases, ‘‘ after bathing keep yourself warm ; after dinner 
Stand or walk gently,” that the food may descend. The latter 
part has received three different interpretations. 
I. Taking minuté for an adverb, equivalent to paulatim, 
“When you are heated cool yourself gradually.” It was thus 
understood by Villa Nova, though he has expressed it by the 
converse rule. Homo frigidus debet cavere ne subito se eali- 
faciat, sed paulatim, mutationes enim subite naturam ledunt. 
Il 
the body, to facilitate digestion. - 
IL. «* After bleeding keep yourself cool.” Minute 1s then the 
Vocative case of the participle of the verb minuo used by the 
medical writers, and the Schola for to bleed. In confirmation of 
this meaning some of the commentators have quoted rege: 
Fernelius de vacuandi ratione, cap. ix. os aad oi eee, 8 
