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1480 ‘Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum’ [The healthy way of living
prescribed by Salernian knowledge] commonly known as ‘Flos
medicinae’ [The flower of medicine] or ‘Lilium medicinae’ [The lily of
medicine]. The first work is an anonymous poem on hygiene, drink,
diet, and the beneficial properties of plants, with extensive
commentaries. The woodcuts show people at the dinner table, wine
casks, people drinking and vomiting, various edible plants and
animals, and the production of foods and drinks. The poem dates
back to at least the thirteenth-century and is associated with the
famous school of medicine at Salerno in southern Italy. There is little
grounds for its ascription to Jean de Milan, or to Arnauld de
Villeneue (c1240–1311) who is supposed to have added many of
the notes. It appeared in print many times, beginning c1480 and
usually under the title, ‘Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum’, but in 1551
Christian Egenolph at Frankfurt published a new edition under the
present title, with woodcut illustrations and revised by Johannes
Curio (d.1561).
1481 ‘Herbarium Apulei Plato‘ [The Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius] by Nici ad
Marcum Agrippam : from the Ninth-Century Manuscript in the Abbey
of Monte Cassino (Codex Casinensis 97): Together with the first
printed edition of Joh. Phil. de Lignamine (Editio princeps Romae,
1481; Stearn, 1979).
1484 ‘Herbarius Latinus’, first published in Mainz in 1484, is an
anonymous herbal compilation from classical Arabic, and medieval
sources.
‘Établissement de la profession d’apothicaire. Une déclaration de
Charles VIII rend obligatoire l’appartenance à une corporation pour
exercer la profession d’apothicaire. Mais ces mesures furent très
relativement respectées.’ Establishment of the profession of
apothecary. A declaration of Charles VIII makes it obligatory to
adhere to a corporation in order to exercise the profession of
apothecary, but these measures were only respected up to a certain
point.
Start of Renaissance
1485 The first printed illustrated herbal in the German Language was ‘Gart
der Gesuntheit’ [The Garden of Health] published in Mainz by Peter
Schoeffer.
1488 The next herbal was written in 1488: ‘Herbarium vivae eicones’
[Living images of plants] by Otto Brunfels and was published at the