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 II
PROOEMIUM

Liber VII
PROOEMIUM

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Liber VIII

Superest ea pars, quae ad ossa pertinet; quae quo facilius accipi possit, prius positus figurasque eorum indicabo.

Igitur calvaria incipit, ex interiore parte concava, extrinsecus gibba, utrimque levis, et qua cerebri membranam contegit et qua cute capillum gignente contegitur; eaque simplex ab occipitio et temporibus, duplex usque in verticem a fronte. Ossaque eius ab exterioribus partibus dura, ab interioribus, quibus inter se conectuntur, molliora sunt; interque ea venae discurrunt, quas his alimentum subministrare credibile est. Rara autem calvaria solida sine suturis est; locis tamen aestuosis facilius invenitur; et id caput firmissimum atque a dolore tutissimum est. Ex ceteris, quo suturae pauciores sunt, eo capitis valetudo commodior est: neque enim certus earum numerus est, sicut ne locus quidem. Fere tamen duae insuper aures tempora a superiore capitis parte discernunt; tertia ad aures per verticem tendens occipitium a summo capite diducit. Quarta ab eodem vertice per medium caput ad