154 THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT 



author enumerates no less than nineteen divisions 

 of his subject, which he seems to have studied very 

 exactly. This work long remained an authority in 

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

 translations we have noticed, but also in the fact that 

 large use was made of it in a later collection which 

 commences thus : c In the name of the Lord, Amen. 

 These are certain recipes taken from the book of 

 Master Michael Scot, Physician to the Emperor 

 Frederick, and from the works of other Doctors/ 1 



There has also come down to us a prescription called 

 Pillulae Magistri Micliaelis Scoti. 2 It enumerates 

 about a dozen ingredients and the scribe has added 



1 Vatican, Fondo della Reginadi Svezia, 1159, p. 149. This treatise 

 closes thus : ' et istud sufficit tempore presenti facto urinarum. Finis 

 urinarum Magistri Michaelis Scocti. Incipit Practica Magistri R. de 

 Parma Medecinarum. 3 



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

 containing a medical collection. It belonged in 1422 to Heinrich 

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

 97 vo, is as follows : * Pillulae Magistri Michaelis Scoti, quae fere 

 competunt omnibus egritudinibus, et non possit scribi earuni bonitas, 

 unde nolo eas amplius laudare etc. Recipe Aloe epatice optimum, 

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

 blicorum, citrinorum, masticiis, dyagridii, azari, rosarum, Reubarbari 

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

 vel v. Et iste competunt convenienti et ydonea dieta observata. Et 

 valent iste pillulae contra omnem dolorem capitis, ex quacumque causa, 

 vel ex quocumque humore procedat, purgant mire omnes humores, 

 Leticiam generant, inentem acuunt, visum reddunt et reparant, 

 auditum restituunt, Juventutem conservant, Scotomiam et vertiginem 

 reparant, canes (1 canities) retardant, memoriaiu conservant, Emigraneam 

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

 reducunt. Et si aliquis humorum est impediment! in gingivis et 

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

 purgant, Epiglotum et uvam (?uvulam) cum voce clarificant, appetivam 

 virtutem confortant, Stomachum epar et splenem coadjuvant. Sonitum 

 aurium et surditatem tollunt, causas febrium omnino extingunt et 

 auferunt, ascarides vermes necant, omnibus etatibus et temporibus tarn 

 masculino quam feminino sexui conveniunt.' In the Laurentian 

 Library, xii. 27. p. 48, 1 find a similar prescription which may have been 

 given either by Michael Scot or Master Volmar who succeeded him as 

 court physician. It is as follows : ' Pulvis Domini Fred. Imperatoris, valens 

 contra omnium humorum exceptionem et precipue contra neuniaticum 

 et melanconicum, ex quibus diuturnae infirmitates capitis et stomach! 

 habent [?] provenire. Valet quippe contra defectum visus et stomachi 



