De Medicina

De Medicina
By Celsus
Edited by: W. G. Spencer (trans.)

Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).

Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents


A. Cornelii Celsi De Medicina
   Prooemium

Liber I

Liber II
   PROOEMIUM

Liber III

Liber IV

Liber V

Liber VI

Liber VII
   PROOEMIUM

Liber VIII

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A. Cornelii Celsi De Medicina

Prooemium

 [p. 4] Eodem vero auctore disci potest morbos tum ad iram deorum inmortalium relatos esse, et ab iisdem opem posci solitam verique simile est inter nulla auxilia adversae valetudinis, plerumque tamen eam bonam contigisse ob bonos mores, quos neque desidia neque luxuria vitiarant; siquidem haec duo corpora prius in Graecia, deinde apud nos adflixerunt ideoque multiplex ista medicina, neque olim neque apud alias gentes necessaria, vix aliquos ex nobis ad senectutis principia perducit.

Ergo etiam post eos, de quibus rettuli, nulli clari viri medicinam exercuerunt, donec maiore studio litterarum disciplina agitari coepit; quae ut animo praecipue omnium necessaria, sic corpori inimica est. Primoque medendi scientia sapientiae pars habebatur, ut et morborum curatio et rerum naturae contemplatio sub iisdem auctoribus nata sit: scilicet iis hanc maxime requirentibus, qui corporum suorum robora inquieta cogitatione nocturnaque vigilia minuerant. Ideoque multos ex sapientiae professoribus peritos eius fuisse accipimus, clarissimos vero ex iis Pythagoran et Enpedoclen et Democritum. Huius autem, ut quidam crediderunt, discipulus Hippocrates Cous, primus ex omnibus memoria dignus, a studio sapientiae disciplinam hanc separavit, vir et arte et facundia insignis. Post quem Diocles