154 THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT 



author enumerates no less than nineteen division 

 of his subject, which he seems to have studied ver 

 exactly. This work long remained an authority ii 

 the medical schools, as appears, not only from the tw 

 translations we have noticed, but also in the fact tha 

 large use was made of it in a later collection whicl 

 commences thus : ' In the name of the Lord, Amen 

 These are certain recipes taken from the book c 

 Master Michael Scot, Physician to the Empero 

 Frederick, and from the works of other Doctors.' 1 



There has also come down to us a prescription calle< 

 Pillulae Magistri Michaelis Scoti. 2 It enumerate 

 about a dozen ingredients and the scribe has adde< 



1 Vatican, Fondo della Eeginadi Svezia, 1159, p. 149. This treatis 

 closes thus : ' et istud sufficit tempore present! facto urinarum. Fini 

 urinarum Magistri Michaelis Scocti. Incipit Practica Magistri R. d 

 Parma Medecinarum.' 



2 British Museum, add. MSS. 24,068. This is a volume in 8v 

 containing a medical collection. It belonged in 1422 to Heinric 

 Zenner and afterwards to Magister Wenceslaus Brock. No. 22, at fo 

 97 vo, is as follows: 'Pillulae Magistri Michaelis Scoti, quae far 

 competunt omnibus egritudinibus, et non possit scribi earuni bonita; 

 unde nolo eas amplius laudare etc. Recipe Aloe epatice optiimm 

 uncias iii., brionie, mirobolonorum indorum, reb. belliricorum, em 

 blicorum, citrinorum, masticiis, dyagridii, azari, rosarum, Reubarbai 

 an unciam i. Confice cum succo caulium vel absynthii. Dosis sit vi 

 vel v. Et iste competunt convenient! et ydonea dieta observata. E 

 valent iste pillulae contra ornnem dolorem capitis, ex quacumque causs 

 vel ex quocumque humore procedat, purgant mire omnes humore; 

 Leticiam generant, inentem acuunt, vismu reddunt et reparani 

 auditum restituunt, Juventutem conservant, Scotomiam et vertiginei 

 reparant, canes (? canities) retardant, memoriain conservant, Emigraneni 

 depellunt, oculos illuminant, aciem reparant, et in puerilem etatec 

 reducunt. Et si aliquis humoruni est impediment! in gingivis e 

 dentibus, medifica[n]t et in soliditatem conservant, arterias de flemat 

 purgant, Epiglotum et uvarn (?uvulam) cum voce clarificant, appetivaii 

 virtutem confortant, Stomachum epar et splenem coadjuvant. Sonitun 

 aurium et surditatem tollunt, causas febrium omnino extingunt e 

 auferunt, ascarides vermes necant, omnibus etatibus et temporibus tan 

 masculine quam feminino sexui conveniunt.' In the Lain 1 ' 

 Library, xii. 27. p. 48, I find a similar prescription which may have beei 

 given either by Michael Scot or Master Volmar who succeeded him :u 

 court physician. It is as follows : 'PulvisDomini Fred. Imperatoris, valeni 

 contra omnium hutnorum exceptionem et precipue contra fleumaticun 

 et melanconicuni, ex quibus diuturnae infirmitates capitis et stomachi 

 habent [?] provenire. Valet quippe contra defectuui visus et stomach! 



