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The biggest title of pride for Salerno is entrusted to his famous Medical School, an institution that, despite ups and downs, has worked for over a millennium, from the Middle Ages to 1812 and has spread throughout the world the name and prestige of city, which Hippocratica Urbs who first theorized and then practiced medicine free from the stars.

The legend attributes the founding of the School to four masters: the jew Helinus, the greek Pontus, Arabic and Latin Adela Salernus. The ars medical Salerno was born because of the confluence of these four cultures in Salerno, in the heart of the Mediterranean, they found the real issue.
The first witness to history of the school date back to the tenth century. Alfano I, archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to 1085, eminent doctor, as well as poet and philosopher, wrote of his city: Tum medicines off florebat in art, posset ut hic nullus languor hobere locum: "Then Salerno was so successful in art medical that no disease could find it in place. "
If lack of adequate documentation, it is difficult to ascertain the time of the founding of the school or schools, there can be no doubt that the centuries-X XI doctors of Salerno enjoyed a great fame even outside Italy.

Salerno medical culture, unusually for the cultural landscape of the time, had an important role women too. The most famous and legendary even traits, is Trotula, midwives and midwife, to which it attaches a treaty of gynecology and obstetrics.
The first document in which the school is cited as institutionalized organization is contained in the constitutions of Frederick II, published in Melfi in 1231, which stated: ... in the future no one dares to assume the title of doctor and medical practice as if it does not exceed l 'examination of the school of medicine of the masters of Salerno and has written statements of confidence and expertise issued by these masters ... This is because the teachers were from Salerno sapienze distant, were custodians of ancient traditions, had linked their art to copies of the methods.

The great cultural renewal, linked to the phenomenon of Benedictine monasticism, a Montecassino which had its center propeller Salerno and the highest expression nell'abbazia of St. Benedict, drilled an important role in the development of scientific studies and medical practice. Assumes particular importance in this context the figure of Constantine the African who, in the ten years of stay between Salerno and Monte Cassino, played un'intensissima activities from the greek translation, and from dall'ebraico, enriching the culture of Salerno-Cassinese knowledge of medicine and science Arab in general. Even if a foundation of the medical school remain the doctrines of Corpus Hippocraticum and medical treatment of Claudio Galeno.
The first Statute of the School dates back to 1280, while the royal prerogative of the consideration of the degrees declined only in 1442 when Alfonso d'Aragona authorized the creation of the Collegium doctorum, a corporate doctor of Salerno corresponding to the Order of Doctors, with the right to confer degrees in medicine.

The school continued its activities with various events until 1811, when, with the reorganization of the public realm, Joachim Murat the deleted, punishing legally a state of pre-existing fact: while the Medical College of Salerno, to create and distribute diplomas The scientific and cultural function of the school had long been virtually ceased.
An oral tradition reports that Roberto, Duke of Normandy, returning from the first Crusade stopped in Salerno because a poisoned arrow had caused a severe wound to his right arm and had to quickly stop the spread of infection. Doctors Medical School Salernitana settled someone willing to die heroically instead of Duke Norman, was to suck the poison as soon as possible. Roberto with a noble soul refused, not wishing that someone died in his place, but at night while he slept, his wife Sybil, daughter of the Count of Conversano, the juice from the poison and arm, sacrificing his life, saved him. In the same day, in England, died King William, brother Roberto: These informed of the fact, he decided to start from Salerno to go to occupy the throne which he held. Greeted So doctors Salernitana Medical School, and asked them a Guide, a booklet with the essential principles of medical Salerno. At the King of England was so dedicated to the "Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum" (Rule Health Salernitana) The "Regimen Sanitatis", which over the centuries has had various titles ( "Salernitana Medicine", "De conservanda bona valetudine", "Flos medicinae Scholae Salerni ") is the fundamental document of literary Medical School Salernitana. At the original nucleus, little more than three hundred verses collected and commented in the thirteenth century. by Arnold of Villanova, were added gradually many other aphorisms attributed, rightly or wrongly, the Medical School Salernitana.
In the school of Salerno medical school found space long and accurate catalog of herbs and plants, even if the first nucleus of Regimen Sanitatis assigns only 18 "simple" the primacy of good care: Malva, mint, sage, rue, onion, mustard, purple, nettle, hyssop, cherefolio, ènula, pulegio, nasturtium, Celidonia, willow, crocus, leek, black pepper. The "simple" means that part of the plant that has healing power. The "simple" for excellence in medical literature Salerno medicines that are born from the simplicity of nature, cure diseases and protect health.
Today, the ancient church of San Gregorio retains the first nucleus of the Museum Educational Medical School Salernitana. It is documented and illustrated the activities of the school over the centuries XI-XII-XIII, who represent the period of greatest glory. That same period Salerno made a reference laboratory and an international culture, translation and circulation of books and medical knowledge which has then translated into history crucial for European medicine at least 4 centuries later.

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