gout prepared by calcining these seeds with the fossil muriate of soda. See _Asiatic Researches_, xi. pp. 174, 181, 192. The bellirica and emblica are other species of the same plant, the Terminalia. See Bauhin’s _Historia Plantarum_, 1613. The Dyagridium or Dacridium is an alternative name for scammony. Azarum, the same as asarum, the Aristolochia. Maratum or Marathrum an old name for fennel. Reb. is probably the Robes of the early chemical authors = a vinegar, here impregnated with the active principle of the fruits prescribed. Cyminum = cumin. Calamita = mint. Pulegium = pennyroyal, another of the mints. Salgemma = rock-salt. We shall become familiar with this term in perusing the _Liber Luminis_ of Michael Scot. Centrumgallus, according to Du Cange, the common garden cockscomb. Herbia regia, the Ocymum citrinum or citron basil. Olibanum, frankincense. Galengha, the root of a species of Alpinia. Regulitia, liquorice. I have been greatly helped in identifying several of these forgotten simples by the kindness of Mr. J. M. Shaw, sub-librarian to the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. [230] Year viii. of his Pontificate, namely Jan. 16, 1223. See the interesting article by Milman in the _Miscellany of the Philobiblon Society_, vol. i. 1854. He refers to the papers of Mr. W. R. Hamilton in the British Museum, and especially to vol. ii. pp. 214, 228, 246. [231] _Monumenta_, _sub anno_ 1259, Feb. 12. [232] ‘Quod inter literatos vigeat dono scientiae singulari.’ [233] Theiner, _Monumenta_, p. 23, _ad annum_ viii. Hon. III. _i.e._ 1223. [234] Declinature noted June 20, 1223. [235] Milman’s _Church History_, vol. iv. p. 17. [236] ‘Nec contentus littera tantum erudire Latina, ut in ea melius formaretur, Hebraice et Arabice insudavit laudabiliter et profecit, et sic doctus in singulis grata diversorum varietate nitescit.’—Hamilton MSS. in British Museum, vol iii. p. 57. [237] He was a Calabrian abbot, who died in 1202. [238] This author died in 1306. [239] See Muratori ‘Rerum Italicarum Scriptores,’ viii. (1726) ad calcem _Mem. Potest Reg._ [240] Muratori, _Op. cit._ ix. 669 B. [241] ‘Quaedam de Te presagia, Cesar, A Michaele Scoto me percepisse recordor. Qui fuit astrorum scrutator, qui fuit Augur, Qui fuit Ariolus, et qui fuit alter Apollo.’ Poem of Henri d’Avranches in ‘Forschungen zur Deutschen Geschichte,’ xviii. (1878), p. 486. [242] Vol. x. p. 105. See also the same vol., pp. 101 and 148. [243] L. ii. xvii. 338, p. 183vo. [244] Bibl. Univ. No. 1557, p. 43. This MS. is of the fifteenth century. [245] ‘Chronica F. Salimbene,’ Parma 1857, pp. 176-177. [246] Muratori, _Op. cit._ ix. 660 B.