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 VI

[p. 286] utendum est. Si ista parum iuvant, solent inposita medicamenta adurentia ea capitulla absumere. Ac si iam vetustiora sunt, sub auctore Dionysio inspergenda sandraca est, deinde inponendum id quod ex his constat: squamae aeris, auripigmenti, singulorum P. V; saxi calcis P. VIII; postero die acu conpungendum. Adustis capitulis fit cicatrix, quae sanguinem fundi prohibet. Sed quotiens is suppressus est, ne quid periculi adferat, multa exercitatione digerenda materia est. Praetereaque viris et feminis, quibus menstrua non proveniunt, interdum ex brachio sanguis mittendus est.

At si anus ipse vel os vulvae procidit (nam id quoque interdum fit), considerari debet, purumne id sit, quod provolutum est, an umore muccoso circumdatum. Si purum est, in aqua desidere homo debet; aut salsa aut cum verbenis vel malicorio incocta. Si umidum, vino austero subluendum est inlinendumque faece vini conbusta. Ubi utrolibet modo curatum est, intus reponendum est, inponendaque plantago contrita vel folia salicis in aceto cocta tum linteolum, et super lana; eaque deliganda sunt cruribus inter se devinctis.

Fungo quoque simile ulcus in eadem sede nasci solet: id, si hiemps est, egelida; si aliud tempus, frigida aqua fovendum est, dein squama aeris inspergenda, supraque ceratum ex murteo factum,