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1180. Maurus, ‘‘an esteemed Salernitan master,’? a. man of wealth and gen- 
erosity, who is said to have prepared a medicament out of pearls; Aegidius Corboliensis 
praises “the splendid munificence of Maurus, a man conspicuous with much gold,’’ 
Meyer 3: 460. 
1188. Gio: anni Ferrario II, the Signor of Gragnano, friend of William II., and 
author (so Renzi and Giacosa) of the work on fevers known as Curae, first printed 1901 
in Giacosa’s Magistri Salernitani, pp. 1-65, from a 12th century codex. He use 
among the Compositae, folicaria maior et minor, lactuca, scariola, camomilla, aprota- 
mandragora, with oil of roses or violets. For pain in the head he directs to use erda 
quae vulgo dicitur cassillago. ites no contemporary by name, but quotes from the 
Passionarius and from Constantinus’ Viaticum. Renzi shows the continuance of the 
family in his son, Tommaso, and nephew. Giovanni III ; and sons of the latter, Matteo 
and Bartolomeo Ferrario, mentioned in documents as at Salerno in 1273. 
1190. Aegidius Corboliensis, or Gilles de Corbeil, a Salernitan physician and 
teacher, later court physician to Philip Augustus of France, king 1180-1223 ; known 
for his carrying the medical knowledge of Salerno to the French schools of medicine at 
Paris and at Montpellier ; and for his medical verses (edited by Choulant), chiefly a 
translation from the Antidotarium of Nicolaus Praepositus and from the Glossary of 
Matthaeus Platearius. His Latin hexameter treatises DE PULsIs and DE uRINA became 
medical classics. He died, says Meyer, 3: 507, ‘‘at the beginning of the 13th century.” 
II 
fra. 
1190? Socius Platearti. Some ompanion of the Plateario family seems at. 
about this time to have prepared the Ferrarese recension of the Circa instans, see infra. 
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** Magister Thomasius Saracenus clericus Salernitanus doctor in physica 
died in 1200, Renzi. Was hea Crusader, termed Saracenus on his return? as has 
been the case in France, and as is claimed for the origin of the name of Saracenus, the 
Dioscoridean editor? Renzi thought him an Arab, and perhaps the same as the Saracen 
ster Adala. But probably Adala was a Saracen who remained a Saracen. Master 
Thomas instead if a Saracen by birth must have adopted Christianity, and that early 
enough to become a priest, taking the name of Thomas. : 
1200? Otho Cremonensis,* who may have written perhaps 1200 A. D., and whose 
Wntings when printed in part, 1551, etc., always occurred in company with the Xegz- 
men Salerni; author of a poem ¢ of 138 lines “* DE ELECTIONE. . . MEDICAMEN- 
TORUM”’ contained ina Leipsic MS. of about 1300 A. D., to which Choulant, publish- 
‘ng this in 1832, added 241 others as perhaps by the same author, which treat of the 
remedies as the Dispensatory—or Antidotarium, of Nicolaus Praepositus. sr 
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