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

Ut alimenta sanis corporibus agricultura, sic sanitatem aegris Medicina promittit. Haec nusquam quidem non est siquidem etiam inperitissimae gentes herbas aliaque promta in auxilium vulnerum morborumque noverunt. Verum tamen apud Graecos aliquanto magis quam in ceteris nationibus exculta est, ac ne apud hos quidem a prima origine, sed paucis ante nos saeculis. Ut pote cum vetustissimus auctor Aesculapius celebretur, qui quoniam adhuc rudem et vulgarem hanc scientiam paulo subtilius excoluit, in deorum numerum receptus est. Huius deinde duo filii Podalirius et Machaon bello Troiano ducem Agamemnonem secuti non mediocrem opem commilitonibus suis attulerunt; quos tamen Homerus non in pestilentia neque in variis generibus morborum aliquid adtulisse auxilii, sed tantummodo ferro et medicamentis mederi solitos esse proposuit. Ex quo apparet has partes medicinae solas ab iis esse tentatas, easque esse vetustissimas.