226 AsTER History; SALERNO 
probably made from the sania Serapias, for the bite of a reptile, or for a barking dog, 
or for ‘* matricis frigiditatem. 
The special medicament-names which seem more than any other to have replaced 
Aster in his terminology are Hiera, the sacred remedy; (more colloquial Salernitans 
called it Vera, as in the Turin Antidotario ; see the e year 1030, ei and he has his 
ffiera Rufini, Hiera Galeni, Hiera Constantini and Hiera Abbatis de Curia y and Dia,* 
as an inseparable prefix, used with the plant which had been in Greek usa: ine: the object 
of Dia asa perpraiton’s like Diamargariton, which ‘ laedificat, cor confortat, stom- 
achum juvat,’’ and Diacalamintum, which ‘*digestivum juvat’’; and, in the thir 
place, his series of Unguenta, as his Unguentum Marciaton, for ‘‘stomachi dolor,” and 
“‘acumen iliacae,’’ his Unguentum Agrippa for a tumor, etc 
a tho was soon lost to memory, is seen in a 14th century MS. of his verses 
at Rome, which attributes them to Gilles de Corbeil ( Giacosa, 407) 
2 Michael Scotus (not the Michael Scott, the savant Scotus, who lived 1210- 
1291), ‘‘ celebrated British astronomer and necromancer,’’ A/eyer 3: 470, lived long 
at Toledo and later at Naples at the court of King Frederick II. (1208-1215, when he 
was crowned Emperor at Aachen, living so till 1250); was, says ae esteemed @ 
Salernitan ON Meyer deems him the same as the second of t even masters, 
reputed authors of the ‘ Antrorarium’’ c. 1050, who was chr cee as ‘‘ Michael 
Stortus, qui fuit de oat Salerni,’’ by some writer of Manfred’s am c. 1260. Scotus 
may have ma or corrections to that digest of medicin 
1220? ALPHITA, a las of the 13th century, found in se Bibl. Mazarin at 
Paris by Carlo Daremberg and printed by him, Collectio Salernitana 3: 276+. Camus 
terms it “ l’interessantissimo vocabolario salernitano.’’ The name by which it is cited is 
due to its first line, ‘ Alphita et farina hordei idem.’ 
1240. Thomas de Cantiprato (¢. v.) bases his work on Circa instans. 
1250? The SINONIMIA DELL EsTENs+, written probably in the 13th century, was 
perhaps a Salernitan Beg, ati ; it exists in Modena in two forms with slight vari- 
ants, one a MS found by Professor Foucard, in 13th century characters ; the other on€ 
published by ete Camus, 1886, written out about 1458, by Le Petit Pelous, w 
after translating his Secres de Salerne from the 7; ractatus Horan, wrote this pre 
imia of 25 folios upon the last blank portion of the latter MS. It begins with “ Arth 
tapes id est matricaria, mater herbarum,’’ and has also a ‘* Matricaria minor, = ama 
rel,” and a *' Mutricaris media, = Athanacetum or Ath inasia,’’ i. ¢., tansy: It 
ian no Aster, but has ‘‘ Turbith, similis galange.’ 
1260? The Salernitan Chronicle of about 1260, by an unknown writer; see p. 219 
1270? Pietro Spano, Spanish writer recommending his ‘‘ Eufrasia’”’ for the eyess 
may have been a Salernitan scholar; his book seems to echo the title ‘‘ Secreta sas 
nitana’’ in its own title ‘*Secreta magistri Petri hispani De egritudines oculorum.” 
1277. 
He died 1 
1285. ard Gordon, the Scotch author of the Lilium medicinae, etc, COM- 
tinued Salernitan traditions at its offshoot the school of sR where he lived 
1285-1307. Giacosa, p. 390, notes the discovery of another work by hi a Flebotomia, 
ina Naples MS. of the 13th and 14th centuries with the date of its beginiiie Wvosd 
choatus est iste liber in —. studio Montis Pessulani,’’ Feb. 22, 7 
estan gig aus een 
* Macer Vloridus cited one jak name, Siaveason, which ‘ says is a prepare 
tion made from Peganum, and fala he mentions as if to him, writing about 850 A. D., 
it was a new form of express 
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