236 Aster History ; CoNSTANTINUS 
stantinus’ description (Meyer 3 : 484) is ‘‘Oculcea est herba super 
terram duobus brachiis saliens, cujus frondes breves et subtiles, 
quasi frondes chamomillae. Spinam (spicam?) etiam modicam 
vividem et florem violaceum (habet). Rami ejus multos nodos 
habent.” Opera conqusita, 352. 
“« Syche species est Abrotani in Armenia nascentis,” 360, with- 
out description. Simon Januensis in his dictionary, citing this, says 
‘““Siche Armenum, liber graduum, est Abrotanum agreste.” 
XLII. Tort Recimen SALERNI 
The Regimen sanitatis Salerni,* celebrated medical poem, 
seems to have been finished in r1ror, the joint product + of the 
then Salernitan masters, reducing to aphoristic form the medical 
wisdom current in their school, using as material various parts 
of Macer Floridus’ poem, etc., and addressing their poem to the 
King of England, identified as Prince Robert of Normandy, sec- 
ond son of William the Conqueror, thus harmonizing three MSS. 
which begin Anxglorum regi (the oldest form), Francorum regt 
(2. ¢., king of Normandy), and Roderto regt. 
John of Milan—Joannes de Mediolano”’—is named { as 
“compilator” in “the ancient Tullovian MS.” discovering which 
fact, his editor t Zacharius Sylvius, M.D., of Rotterdam was first 
to make the claim § in 1648, that the original poem was written 
followed by Ackermann and most authors ; Flos medicinae of many 
lict: holae Salerni of Renzi ; Sylvius, 1667, entitled it *‘ Scho/a Salernitana 
sive de conservandi valetudine praecepta metrica”’ ; Arnald also calls it Medicina Saler- 
nitana, and John de Milan, ‘« Flores Medicinae.”’ 
T This poem was first carefully edited by Arnald de Villanova, who died 1313, any 
in whose form, considered th tl i 1 d original, the poem’ 
ce oats ee ae OL 
* Regimen Sanitatis Silerni (and also S /ernitinum) is its title as given by 
Arnald MSS.; 
los me 
t ? 
the supp So 
i i + ; d until 
consisted of 364 lines. Some MSS. have only 200; later ones were augmente 
they reached 2130 as published by Renzi; but Ackermann, its critical editor (Stem 
i g 
remarks, many of the spurious verses are doubtless as old or older than 1101, but were 
not then included in the Regimen. 
} Rotterdam, 1649 and 1667 ; printed by Leers, sn 
age the authority, says Sylvius, «of Joan Georgius Schenkius, in Bibliotheca 
ica.’’ 
