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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Liber IV
 [p. 460] lenibus utendum est, sic ut etiam tum acopo vel liquido cerato cyprino articuli perfricentur. Equitare podagricis quoque alienum est. Quibus vero articulorum dolor certis temporibus revertitur, hos ante et curioso victu cavere oportet, ne inutilis materia corpori supersit, et crebriore vomitu; et si quis ex corpore metus, vel alvi ductione uti vel lacte purgari. Quod Erasistratus in podagricis expulit, ne in inferiores partes factus cursus pedes repleret, cum evidens si omni purgatione non superiora tantummodo sed etiam inferiora exinaniri.


32 Ex quocumque autem morbo quis invalescit, si tarde confirmatur, vigilare prima luce debet; nihilo minus in lecto conquiescere; circa tertiam horam leviter unctis manibus corpus permulcere. Deinde delectationis causa, quantum iuvat, ambulare, circumcisa omni negotiosa actione; tum gestari diu, multa frictione uti, loca, caelum, cibos saepe mutare. Ubi triduo quadriduove vinum bibit, uno aut etiam altero die interponere aquam. Per haec enim fiet, ne in vitia tabem inferentia incidat et ut mature vires suas recipiat. Cum ex toto vero convaluerit, periculose vitae genus subito mutabit et inordinate aget. Paulatim ergo debebit omissis his legibus transire, ut arbitrio suo vivat.