SCHOLA SALERNI. 185 
Villa Nova says, Secundum tamen solennes medicine doc- 
et Avicenna, 
culari enumeratione ossium disconveniant, et istud vult ille 
communis versus, 
Ossa ducentena sunt atque quater duodena. 
1, 259. Terra melan: aq: phleg: et aér sanguis: cole: ignis. 
The words of this line are apocopized to bring them into o the 
verse, and must thus be scanned, 
Terra me—lan : aq:—phleg: et a—ér san—guis: cole :—ignis, 
for terra melancholicis, aqua phlegmaticis, et aér sanguineis, 
colericis i — (comparatur 
. This contracted line was expend into 
Terra melancholicis, aqua confertur pituite, 
Aér sanguineis, ignea vis cholera. 
The di pas in colour between venal and arterial blood is 
mentioned by Villa Nova. Color ee rubeus ; scilicét, venalis 
rubeus iene a arterialis rubeus clarus. 
1, 266. The number here tie from the plural to the 
singular, but this nothing in such inaccurate writers. So in 
the three following paragraphs 
1,304, This passage would be perfectly plain if the two 
lines, Hi sunt and In quibus, were placed at the beginning be- 
fore Tres insunt istis—** those thr 
and neither bleeding, 
these months, or days, are called lunar is not shes aine 
