EARLIEST SALERNITANS 217 
haps this Josephus was the one who was the originator of the medicament cited (in a 
Salernitan Antidotarium known in a 12th century Turin MS.; Giacosa, p. 377) as 
Yera (Hiera) Joseph sacerdotis, See p. 220, under 1030. Perhaps the medicament 
was, however, the work of the Joseph of 1005. 
855. /osan (the scribe meant /oswa, 7. e., Joshua, suggests Meyer) medicus also 
purchased real estate. Can this be the writer cited as ‘* Jozat Caldeus’’ by Bartholo- 
maeus Anglicus, c. 1256 (fol. 251 of the Basle edition, c. 1470) ? 
900. Ragenifrid, physician to Prince Guaimar I. of Salerno. 
908. Alfanus, Bishop of Salerno under Guaimar II., in a poem speaks of the stir 
of medical activity at Salerno, 
*¢Tum medicinali tantum florebat in arte 
Posset ut hic nullus languor habere locum.”’ 
924. Eadgifu’s Salernitan, a nameless physician styled ‘a Salernitan physician 
to Charles the Simple, King of France,’’ vanquished 924 or earlier, in a court contest 
of medical skill with the courtier Derold. The Salernitan was in the especial service 
of Charles’ queen, Eadgifu, and was probably her physician at the birth in 921 of her 
son, Louis d’Outremer.* 
9 Petrus, physician to Gisulf I , of Salerno, was so beloved by him that he 
made him Bishop of Salerno. 
. Adalbero, Bishop of Verdun, repaired ‘‘ to the physicians of Salerno”’ for his 
health, but in vain, and died while on his return, Orderscus Vitalis. First record of 
physicians of Salerno in the plural, Meyer. 
1000 n unknown plant writer perhaps at Salerno, made additions to Diosco- 
rides’ descriptions of plants, which additions appear ‘‘in a very ancient hand, per- 
aps of the «1th century ”’ ( Giacosa, 352), as aygiunta to a oth century Lucca MS. 
of a Pseudo-Dioscorides. 
* Eadgifu, granddaughter of that early patron of English medicine, Alfred the Great, 
and sister of Athelstan, may have shared her husband’s imprisonment, 925-929, but at 
his death, 929, carried off her son for safety to England ; returning in 936, he was King 
of France to 954. Richer, writing his History of France in 996, tells us of the Saler- 
nitan’s luckless competition with Deroldus, afterward Bishop of Amiens, who was then 
in King Charles’ service at court. The King, who, it will be remembered, has come 
down through the ages labeled ‘‘ The Simpleton,’’ turned one day to Derold asking 
_— reached Richer in 996, and Sigebert, of about 1050, who knew of Macer’s eee 
mgs, would have been equally likely to have known of any service by Macer at the 
French court. 
