Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke.
- Date:
- 1830
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Credit: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse : addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation / and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![The stomach is equally hard of digestion, but the extremities that is the bottom, and orifice, as being more fleshy, are more digestible. In some printed editions, Sic quoque ventriculus, tamen exteriora probantur. 1. 149. Sernen, called marathrum, jxapaOpov. Expels wind, Vill. Nov. The place emitting for the thing emitted. 1. 152. Spodium, according to Avicenna, wsls the roots of canes or reeds burnt, for which burnt bones were sometimes substituted. 1. 158. Three triads of the qualities of bodies from the taste. Hot: salt, bitter, pungent. Cold : sour, rough, astringent. In- termediate or temperate : fat, insipid, sweet. Ponticus is astrin- geut, as the taste of acorns, etc. a pungendo, or from radix Ponticus, rhubarb. 1.161. Vippa, or vipa, a wine-sop, compounded of vinum and panis. Offa is a sop in broth, etc. 1. 162. m,inus est impiet, minuit quod abundat. By digesting food it nourishes the body; by digesting super- fluous and vitious humours it expels them. A MS. pas lumen, comfortat quod minus est, adipem dat. 1. 165. Hippocras. In Aphorism, Sect. ii. Aph. 50, Ta iK ttoXXov %poj/oy ^vvr)9ea, Kyv ey %tipw, tojv a^vvijQeoJV y)aaov evoxXssiv eiojOe, and De Victus Ratione in Morb. acut. lib. ii. Aphor. 21, 22. Meta medicincp, the 6b]ec\, scopus. 1. 172. Dixerunt, Dixerunt malvam nostri quod molliat alvum. Macer, N. 70.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21969012_0226.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
