De Medicina 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 III Table of Contents
[p. 348] praecipiunt , expedit : bibenda aqua est , bis die in lectulo leniter satis diu corpus perfricandum est , deinde retento spiritu ab ipsa exercitatione potius superiores partes movendae; balineo raro utendum ; mutandum subinde peregrinationibus caelum . Si dolor est , ea ipsa pars sine oleo nitro ex aqua perunguenda est , deinde involvenda, et subicienda pruna lenis et sulpur , atque ita diu subfumigandum; idque aliquandiu faciendum , sed ieiuno , cum bene iam concoxerit . Cucurbitulae quoque saepe dolenti parti admovendae sunt , pulsandusque leviter inflatis vesicis bubulis is locus est . Utile est etiam sebum miscere cum hyoscyami et urticae contritis seminibus , sic ut omnium par modus sit , idque inponere ; fovere aqua , in qua sulpur decoctum sit . Utriculi quoque recte inponuntur aqua calida repleti, aut bitumen cum hordeacia farina . . . iactum . Atque in ipso potissimum dolore utendum gestatione vehementi est ; quod in aliis doloribus pessimum est .
Tremor autem nervorum aeque vomitu medicamentisque urinam moventibus intenditur . Inimica etiam habet balinea assasque sudationes. Bibenda aqua est ; acri ambulatione utendum , itemque unctionibus frictionibusque, maxime per se ipsum ; pila similibusque superiores partes dimovendae; cibo quolibet utendum , dum concoctioni utique studeatur. Secundum cibum curis abstinendum ; rarissima venere utendum est . Si quando quis in eam pro-
