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 V
 [p. 166] oleoque vinum miscere et sic ungui; tum descendere in solium. Si nihil sic proficitur, aut si maius pusularum genus occupavit, imponenda lenticula est, detractaque summa pellicula ad medicamenta lenia transeundum est. Epinyctis post lenticulam recte herba quoque sanguinali vel viridi coriandro curatur. Ulcera ex pusulis facta tollit spuma argenti cum semine feni Graeci mixta, sic ut his invicem rosa atque intubi sucus adiciatur, donec mellis crassitudo ei fiat. Proprie ad eas pusulas, quae infantes male habent, lapidis, quem pyriten vocant, P. yyy VIII cum quinquaginta amaris nucibus miscetur, adiciunturque olei cyathi tres. Sed prius ungui ex cerussa pusulae debent, tum hoc inlini.

Scabies vero durior: cutis rubicunda, ex qua pusulae oriuntur, quaedam umidiores, quaedam sicciores. Exit ex quibusdam sanies, fitque ex his continuata exulcerato pruriens; serpitque in quibusdam cito. Atque in aliis quidem ex toto desinit, in aliis vero certo tempore anni revertitur. Quo asperior est quoque prurit magis, eo difficilius tollitur: itaque eam, quae talis est, agrian id est feram Graeci appellant.— In hoc quoque victus ratio eadem quae supra (15 D) necessaria est: medicamentum autem ad incipientem hanc idoneum est, quod fit