222 Aster History; SALERNO 
1085 ? Copho the younger; Salernitan physician, who wrote 1085 or after, but be- 
fore 1100 (Meyer 3: 479); speaks in his writings which we possess, of what he ha 
written out from the lips of Copho (the elder), and from writings of Copho’s associates. 
He was author of the ANATOME PorCI, a medical work long familiar in the mi 
An electuary which he composed also transmitted his name, the e/ectuarium 
pO Cophonis 
085. Abbas de Curia. The Abbot at Salerno at this time or later compounded 
a remedy for the use of Duke Roger, who succeeded his father Richard Guiscard, 1085, 
as duke or king of Apulia. It was preserved and prescribed by Nicolo in his Antido- 
ium, about 1110, under the name of Llectuarium Ducts (for calculus, flatulence, 
indigestion and iliac pains) with explanation ‘‘ quia abbas de Curia illud composuit ad 
opus Ducis Rogerii, filii Roberti Viscardi.’’ 
1090? TZyotula, the celebrated ‘‘ female professor,’’ author of an oft-printed work 
on obstetrics ; about this time, A/eyer; about 1050, Renzz. 
1090? Giovanni Plateario 11. and Matteo Plateario 1. and the wife of one (said to 
have been Trotula) wrote about this time ; or 1170-90, 
0? chitdanenees or ie ea Bartholomaeus, and Ferrarius, are mentioned 
next after Copho in a of Salernitan writers in a Breslau codex, Meyer 3: 480. 
Fragments of a see ax on fevers by Petronio survive. 
? The above Maestro Bartolomeo may have been the author, suggests Gia- 
cosa, of the Trattato della ran ees first printed by him, 1go1, from a 12th century 
MS.; forming pages 293-326 of his Magistri Salernitani. The numerous plant names 
in this treatise on medicaments, are mostly of accredited and usual form: some of the 
Aster uses are now represented by mienta levisticum, viola, polipodium, reubarbarum, 
as stomachic; g/aucia, da est celidonia, for dolor oculorum ; poppy leaf, or semen miconis, 
id est “venet ali, for procuring es ; asarebaccara viridis as a laxative, etc. He 
mentions crescones for cress, and matrisilvia, ‘*quam nos appellamus s in vulgari nostro 
arn (the later Sika, His Compositae include /o/icaria, calendula, 
artemisia, cicorea, camomilla, etc. 
Known works by this Bartolomeo are his Pratica and his Curae, printed in n the 
Collectio Salernitana, etc. The Pratica ends with the name Ungula caballina, t. éy 
Tussilago Farfara 
‘*they are of two kinds, death-dealing and those that are € not. ‘death: h-dealing” fungi 
mortrfert et non mortiferi ; of the e deadly nightshade, that it is ‘* So/aveam mortale’”? ; of 
the oleander, that ‘its virtue is venomous’? —virtutem habet venenosam ; of the in- 
nocent-seeming Potamogeton natans, which he named Facius videon, sree ** the 
sshamnted’ megan saying, ‘‘ Whoever shall eat of this herb, let him immediately ¢ Fe 
dea f similar tenor is the remark by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, that “‘ Platear 
says, if a wolf eat an almond it will die’’ ; and the observation in the conmntii 
Salernitanum (not found in Circa instans) that the man who should partake of Apium 
risus would die while laughing. Not that Matteo ies new personally about 
poisons ; he was so poor an authority that the oe . of hemlock to 
became in his text ‘‘an administration of mandrake to Plato ’—Afpoll/inus eam oe 
pollinarem herbam] ministravit ad Platonem. sae Matteo, like Sichelgaita, 
antidotes well, and was confident to expel any poison with such ready remed 
of the onion, “Succus eciam [allii] interius ore receptus excutit venenum, 
dicitur Tiriaca [Theriaca, the poison-queller] rusticorum.”” 
