“Medicine was so advanced in Salerno that there was no place for illness.”

— Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno

http://www.comune.salerno.it/la_salerno_turistica/default_en.asp?page=/la_salerno_turistica/la_storia/scuola_medica_en.asp.
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Tum medicinali tantum florebat in arte, posset ut hic nullus languor hobere locum

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