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

Dixi de iis malis corporis, quibus victus ratio maxime subvenit: nunc transeundum est ad eam medicinae partem, quae magis medicamentis pugnat. His multum antiqui auctores tribuerunt, et Erasistratus et ii, qui se empiricos nominarunt, praecipue tamen Herophilus deductique ab illo viro, adeo ut nullum morbi genus sine his curarent. Multaque etiam de facultatibus medicamentorum memoriae prodiderunt, qualia sunt vel Zenonis vel Andriae vel Apolloni, qui Mys cognominatus est. Horum autem usum ex magna parte Asclepiades non sine causa sustulit; et cum omnia fere medicamenta stomachum laedant malique suci sint, ad ipsius victu rationem potius omnem curam suam transtulit. Verum ut illud in plerisque morbis utilius est, sic multa admodum corporibus nostris incidere consuerunt, quae sine medicamentis ad sanitatem pervenire non possunt. Illud ante omnia scire convenit, quod omnes medicinae partes ita innexae sunt, ut ex toto separari non possint sed ab