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Chicago, Nov. 2, 1894.
To the Editor:
Answer:
—The original is as follows:"Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant, Hæctria: Mens hilaris. requies, moderata diæta."This was in the famous "Flos Medicinæ" or Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, composed in the year 1099 by Johannes de Mediolanus (John of Milan) with the concurrence of the other professors of the celebrated School of Salernum. This book was first translated in English by Paynell in 1579, and later by Dr. Philemon Holland in 1634. Holland's translation of the sentence reads:" When Physic needs, let these thy doctors bee, Good dyet, quiet thoughts and heart mirthfull free.""Mirth," says Burton, 1621 (Anatomy of Melancholy) "is one of the three Salernitan doctors, Dr. Merryman, Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, which