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
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Carystius , deinde Praxagoras et Chrysippus , tum Herophilus et Erasistratus sic artem hanc exercuerunt , ut etiam in diversas curandi vias processerint .
Iisdemque temporibus in tres partes medicina diducta est , ut una esset quae victu , altera quae medicamentis , tertia quae manu mederetur . Primam Διαιτητικήνsecundam Φαρμακευτικήν tertiam Χειρουργίαν Graeci nominarunt. Eius autem , quae victu morbos curat, longe clarissimi auctores etiam altius quaedam agitare conati , rerum quoque naturae sibi cognitionem vindicarunt, tamquam sine ea trunca et debilis medicina esset . Post quos Serapion , primus omnium nihil hanc rationalem disciplinam pertinere ad medicinam professus , in usu tantum et experimentis eam posuit . Quem Apollonius et Glaucias et aliquanto post Heraclides Tarentinus et aliqui non mediocres viri secuti ex ipsa professione se empiricos appellaverunt. Sic in duas partes ea quoque , quae victu curat, medicina divisa est , aliis rationalem artem , aliis usum tantum sibi vindicantibus, nullo vero quicquam post eos , qui supra comprehensi sunt , agitante, nisi quod acceperat , donec Asclepiades medendi rationem ex magna parte mutavit. Ex cuius successoribus Themison nuper ipse quoque quaedam in senectute deflexit . Et per hos quidem maxime viros salutaris ista nobis professio increvit .
Quoniam autem ex tribus medicinae partibus ut