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then departing to assume his crown (which he found already seized 
by his brother, Henry the First), ‘‘the School prescribed a ration of 
food for him,’’ composed the Regimen sanitatis Salerni, and sent it 
to him as a guide to health. His own difficulty was the reason, 
continues Sylvius, why fistula * was one of the few disorders 
selected for special mention in the Regimen. 
The popularity of this poem may be judged from the fact that 
Renzi enumerates 119 editions and 26 translations besides his own, 
and Meyer possessed 10 editions not included in the 119. 
The poem, “ the quintescence of Salernitan wisdom” as Meyer 
terms it, is still in common quotationt by American physicians, 
who couple its famous line 
Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto,Z 
and that marvel of interwoven word-tapestry, 
Quos anguis dirus tristi mulcedin 
e pa 
Hos sanguis mirus Christi dulcedine javie 
rete and of Pliny, lived 1551-1636. The Regimen was also translated by Thomas 
n, and ‘‘interwoven,’’ as he says, into his H.ven of Health, 1 
F Sapient ‘ Veaton m saepe capis, si tu vivere rapis.’’—Sylvius, 1649, says of 
the desea 2 the continent, ‘¢ None but has the whole Regimen on his lips and on 
every o n.” 
on medical precepts into verse was the mediaeval manner; as shown in the 
Same twelfth, century by the Salernitan Aegidius of Corbeil. Metrical form was also 
Supposed to be ' Particularly gratifying to the Normans | who had the gre of cast- 
x Nortmanorum cunctorum norma bonorum 
Ralls ferus fortis quem gens Nideduae ae 
Invocat articulo loco jacet in tumulo 
@ Sage was given more space than almost any herb by the Regimen Salerni ; 7 lines : 
Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto ? 
Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hcrtis. 
Salvia confortat nervos Ree! tremorem 
Tollit, et ejus ope febris acuta fu 
Salvia, Castoriumque Lavendula, <atee veris 
Nasturtium, Armoraci ia, haec sanat paralytica ainbie 
Ra ee ee eo rece) Se aA Ap eres Ms a mete | 
Salvia ee natura conciliatrix :—or, beginning Holland’ s version, 
130, 
- Why. should man dye (so doth the — id 
When Sage grows in his Garden day by 
facit “aig na, 3, 1, remarks, ‘* Ars quidem sanitatis ee nos A morte securos i 
Arnald ee Villanova, commenting ve, | —_— invenitu' 
quae moriendi hecessitatem medicina.’”’ But as Cogan, p. 32, puts Piwents 
“ertue of Sage, that if it were possible, it would make a man immorta 
