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 VII

PROOEMIUM

Tertiam esse medicinae partem, quae manu curet, et vulgo notum et a me (prooem. 9) propositum est. Ea non quidem medicamenta atque victus rationem omittit, sed manu tamen plurimum praestat, estque eius effectus inter omnes medicinae partes evidentissimus. Siquidem in morbis, cum multum fortuna conferat, eademque saepe salutaria, saepe vana sint, potest dubitari, secunda valetudo medicinae an corporis an . . . beneficio contigerit. In iis quoque, in quibus medicamentis maxime nitimur, quamvis profectus evidentior est, tamen sanitatem et per haec frustra quaeri et sine his reddi saepe manifestum est: sicut in oculis quoque deprehendi potest, qui a medicis diu vexati sine his interdum sanescunt. At in ea parte, quae manu curat, evidens omnem profectum, ut aliquid ab aliis adiuvetur, hinc tamen plurimum trahere. Haec autem pars cum sit vetustissima, magis tamen ab illo parente omnis medicinae Hippocrate quam a prioribus exculta est. Deinde posteaquam diducta ab aliis habere professores suos coepit, in Aegypto quoque Philoxeno maxime increvit auctore, qui pluribus voluminibus hanc