SCOT AGAIN AT COURT 153 



nd adding that Camperius 1 had the highest 



pinion of him. An anonymous writer, De claris 



)octrina Scotis, is even more precise, telling us 



aat Scot was noted for the cures he effected in 



ifficult cases, and that he excelled in the treatment 



? leprosy, gout, and dropsy. 2 



Some slight remains of this skill are to be found 



the libraries of Europe; for Michael Scot was 



writer on the science of his art as well as a 



ractising physician. The chief of these relics is 



considerable work on the urine. This subject 



d been widely, if not deeply, studied by the more 



cient medical authorities, whose investigations 



pear in the Ketdb Albaul of Al Kairouani, 3 and in 



book to which we have already more than once 



pferred : the De Urinis compiled for Frederick in 



12. 4 The same title belongs to one of the treatises 



Avicenna, which has been reprinted in the pre- 



nt century. 5 



The De Urinis of Michael Scot seems now 

 tant in the form of an Italian translation alone. 

 e exact title is as follows : ' Delia notitia e pro- 

 losticatione dell'orine, secondo Michele Scoto, cosi 

 }' sani, come delli infermi,' or, more briefly, * El 

 attato de le urine secondo Michaele Scoto.' 6 The 



1 This was Symphorien Champier, physician to Henry n. of France. 



- See the Sibbald Collections, Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. 



3 See D'Herbelot. This author was a Jew. 



See ante, pp. 20, 151. Further investigation might show that it 

 s Michael Scot himself who undertook this work for the Emperor. 



that case it would probably be the original from which the two 

 ,lian versions mentioned above were made. Nor is it unlikely he 



uld have devoted himself to medicine as early as 1212 considering 



nature of the work bv Avicenna on which we know he was engaged 

 1210. 



5 In Ideler's Physici et Medici Graeci Minores, Berlin, 1842, vol. ii. 



6 Florence, Bibl. Naz. xv. 27, cod. chart, saec. xv. ; Naples, Bibl. 

 z. cod. chart, saec. xv. from the Minieri Riccio collection. 



