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by this till then unknown * John of Milan, whom Sylvius terms “a 
physician and versificator distinguished for his. period.” The 
“Tullovian MS.” as quoted by Sylvius, ends with these words— 
“ Explicit Tractatus, qui dicitur Flores Medicinae, compilatus in 
studio Salerni a Mag. Joani de Mediolano Instructi medicinalis 
Doctore egregio, compilationi cujus concordarunt omnes Magistri 
illius studii.”’ 
This colophon implies that. John of Milan was in 1100 one of 
the most learned and facile of the physicians of Salerno ; that he 
there revised and united the verses condensed from Macer and 
other sources or probably largely contributed at the time by other 
Salernitan masters; that he then submitted them to these as- 
sembled masters and received their final approval ; so that the 
poem went forth as the united work of the whole schools. 
Everything seems to indicate that this Joannes of Milan f was 
the “ Joannes medicus”’ of whom his brother-monk Petrus Diaconus 
Wrote perhaps 1140, in his Chronicle of Monte Cassino as follows : 
‘‘Joannes medicus, supradicti Constantini Africani discipulus et 
Casinensis monachus, vir in physica arte disertissimus, post Con- 
stantini sui magistri transitum aphorismum { edidit physicis satis 
hecessarium. Fuit autem supradictis imperatoribus (sc. Alexii, 
Henrici, et Joannis). Obiit autem apud Neapolita, ubi omnes lib- 
tos Constantini sui magistri reliquit’’; 7. ¢., Joannes the physician, 
pupil of the above-named Constantinus Africanus and a monk at 
* Sylvius prefixes to his editio 1 of the Regimen verses written by him as a late rec- 
Ws; 
“Consolatio ad manes Jo. de Mediolano. Quod Auctor ipse Carminum Scholae 
Salernitanae hactenus ignotus fuerit. 
*« Non opera periere tua, labor iste peribit 
Nunquam, Posteritas non tua scripta negat, 
Hactenus incerti placuerunt Carmina multis, 
At tua, qua posthac fama vigebit, erit. 
Zachar Sylvius.”’ 
2 a aphoristic nature of the verses which compose the Regimen Salerni make 
ms orismum a natural term to use for it. The author of the Aggregator Practicus ek 
A cP rase for it, in his preface, perhaps about 1350, speaking of the sagacity 0 
mald de Villanova in aphorismis suis, t. e., in his edition of the Aegimen. 
