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 II PROOEMIUM
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[p. 90] appellant , tenuioris intestini morbus quem ileon nominant, levitas intestinorum , qui lienteria vocatur, coxae dolores , morbi comitiales . Idemque tempus et diutinis malis fatigatos, et ab aestate tantum proxima pressos interemit , et alios novis morbis conficit ; et quosdam longissimis inplicat , maximeque quartanis , quae per hiemem quoque exerceant . Nec aliud magis tempus pestilentiae patet , cuiuscumque ea generis est ; quamvis variis rationibus nocet .
Hiemps autem capitis dolores , tussim et quicquid in faucibus in lateribus in visceribus mali contrahitur , inritat.
Ex tempestatibus aquilo tussim movet , fauces exasperat, ventrem adstringit , urinam supprimit , horrores excitat, item dolores lateris et pectoris . Sanum tamen corpus spissat et mobilius atque expeditius reddit . Auster aures hebetat, sensum tardat, capitis dolores movet , alvum solvit , totum corpus efficit hebes , umidum , languidum . Ceteri venti , quo vel huic vel illi propiores sunt , eo magis vicinos his illisve affectus faciunt . Denique omnis calor iecur et lienem inflat , mentem hebetat; ut anima deficiat , ut sanguis prorumpat , efficit . Frigus modo nervorum distentionem , modo rigorem infert ; illud spasmos, hoc tetanos Graece nominatur; nigritiem in ulceribus , horrores in febribus excitat. In siccitatibus acutae febres , lippitudines , tormina , urinae difficultas , articulorum dolores oriuntur ; per imbres longae febres , alvi deiectiones, angina , cancri,