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Salernitan, a. and n.|səˈlɜːnɪtən| [ad. L. Salernitān-us, f. Salernum (see prec.).] a. adj. Of or pertaining to Salerno or the medical school which formerly flourished there. b. n. A native or inhabitant of Salerno; a physician of the Salernitan school. The reference in quots. 1621, 1826 is to the following lines of the poem Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, ‘Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant Hæc tria, mens læta, requies, moderata diæta.’
1608Topsell Serpents ii. 190 Some have called..a toade the brother of the Salernitans, & the Lizard the brother of the Lombards. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iv. 375 This is one of the three Salernitan Doctors, Doctor Merriman, D. Diet, and D. Quiet. 1826C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy (1907) II. 57 Mirth is the principal of the three Salernitan doctors. 1878L. Villari Machiavelli I. 254 A great admixture of the Neapolitan and Salernitan dialects. |