Schola salernitana, sive De conservandâ valetudine præcepta metrica.
By: Autore Joanne de Mediolano hactenus ignoti [!] cum luculentâ & succinctâ Arnoldi Villanovani in singula capita exegesi. Ex recensione Zachariæ Sylvii medici roterodamensis. Cum ejusdem præfatione.
Contributors: Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311, ed.; Sylvius, Zacharias, ed.
Edition: Nova ed., melior & aliquot medicis opusculis auctior. Cum indicibus duobus, altero capitum, altero rerum.
Publisher: ex officinâ A. Leers
Published: 1657
Place of publication: Roterodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 517
Subjects: Health -- Early works to 1800.; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Added t.-p., engr.
The main work, in verse, is of uncertain authorship. The prose commentary is here wrongly attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova.
A reissue of the Hague edition of 1649, containing the commentary as altered by Curis and a preface partly original and partly extracted from Moreau's edition.
Written by the physicians of the school of medicine at Salerno as a gift to Robert, duke of Normandy (eldest son of William the Conqueror) who had spent a winter at Salerno on his way to join in the first crusade, and had returned there at the close of the crusade in search of treatment for a wound in his arm. cf. Sir Alexander Croke's edition, Oxford, 1830, Introduction and Catalogue of editions; Choulant, Handbuch der bücherkunde für die ältere medicin, 2. auf., Leipzig, 1841, p. 264 etc.
"Emissi sangvinis observatio ex Ioannis Fernelii vacuandi ratione, cap. 20": p. 422-425.
"Dioclis Carystii ... Aurea ad Antigonum Asiæ regem epistola, de morborum præsagiis ... è græco latinè redditum per Antonium Mizaldum": p. 426-432.
"De salubri diæta ... [Polybi] liber ... Iano Cornario ... interprete": p. 433-441.
"De ratione victus salutaris post incisam venam, & emissum sanguinem, ad Armatum epigramma Anastasii": p.441.
"Victus et cultus ratio exposita quaternis in singulos menses versibus, per Joachimum Camerarium": p. 442-443.
"Loci aliquot Philippi Melanchto, in lib. de animâ, de moderatione cibi & potus: item somni & vigiliarum": p. 444-447.
"Nonnulla de regimine sanitatis, iuxta sex res non naturales, placita ex Hippocratis & Galeni libris desumpta ... per D. Ioannem Katzchivm ... jam olim edita, sed recens à variis mendis repurgata. per I.A.S.L.": p. 448-498.
"P. Scriverii saturnalia, continentia usum & abusum tabaci": p. 499-514.
Aenigma de tabaco. Ex Caspari Ballæi ænigmatum libro, p. 514.
"Ex Joannis Oweni epigrammatis": p. 515.
"Ex Casparis Barlæi epigrammatis ænigmaticis": p. 516.
"Ex Hugonis Grotii epigrammatis": p. 517.