De Medicina

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

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

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A. Cornelii Celsi De Medicina
Prooemium

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Liber I

[p. 48] lassitudo, quae citra fatigationem sit, idque ipsum modo minus, modo magis faciendum est. Ac ne his quidem athletarum exemplo vel certa esse lex vel inmodicus labor debet. Exercitationem recte sequitur modo unctio, vel in sole vel ad ignem; modo balineum, sed conclavi quam maxime et alto et lucido et spatioso. Ex his vero neutrum semper fieri oportet, sed saepius alterutrum pro corporis natura. Post haec paulum conquiescere opus est.

Ubi ad cibum ventum est, numquam utilis est nimia satietas, saepe inutilis nimia abstinentia: si qua intemperantia subest, tutior est in potione quam in esca. Cibus a salsamentis, holeribus similibusque rebus melius incipit; tum caro adsumenda est, quae assa optima aut elixa est. Condita omnia duabus causis inutilia sunt, quoniam et plus propter dulcedinem adsumitur, et quod modo par est, tamen aegrius concoquitur. Secunda mensa bono stomacho nihil nocet, in inbecillo coacescit. Si quis itaque hoc parum valet, palmulas pomaque et similia melius primo cibo adsumit. Post multas potiones, quae aliquantum sitim excesserunt, nihil edendum est, post satietatem nihil agendum. Ubi expletus est aliquis, facilius concoquit, si, quicquid adsumpsit, potione aquae frigidae includit, tum paulisper invigilat, deinde bene dormit. Si quis interdiu se