Arnald of Villanova's Regimen Almarie (Regimen castra sequentium) and Medieval Military Medicine

"Arnald of Villanova's Regimen Almarie (Regimen castra sequentium) and Medieval Military Medicine." It seems likely that the short work entitled Regimen de castra sequentium and published among the writings of Arnald of Villanova was composed by him on his crossing from Sicily to Spain in late 1309 to meet with his king, James II of Aragon, who was then besieging Almería. The work is a miscellany of practical advice on maintaining an army in health: on where to locate a camp, how to identify good water, how to prevent and treat illness, and how to bury the dead. Though it is akin to earlier genres of medical writing, Arnald's "Regimen Almarie" is perhaps the earliest medieval treatise specifically to address military medicine; it supplements the scattered information provided about the subject by archival sources, while correcting the widespread impression that surgical treatment rather than medical supervision was a medieval army's overriding concern. An edition of the text (from the three known manuscripts and the editio princeps of 1504) is provided, together with an English translation.