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 VIII Table of Contents
[p. 480] primi , quia secant , tomis a Graecis nominantur; hi deinde quattuor caninis dentibus ex omni parte cinguntur ; ultra quos utrimque fere maxillares quaterni sunt , praeterquam in iis . . . Sunt , quibus IV ultimi , qui sero gigni solent , non increverunt . Ex his priores singulis radicibus , maxillares utique binis, quidam etiam ternis quaternisve nituntur ; fereque longior radix breviorem dentem edit ; rectique dentis recta etiam radix , curvi flexa est . Exque eadem radice in pueris novus dens subit , qui multo saepius priorem expellit , inter tamen supra infrave eum se ostendit .
Caput autem spina excipit . Ea constat ex vertebris quattuor et viginti : septem in cervice sunt , duodecim ad costas , reliquae quinque sunt proximae costis . Eae teretes brevesque ; ab utroque latere processus duos exigunt ; mediae perforatae, qua spinae medulla cerebro commissa descendit , circa quoque per duos processus tenuibus cavis perviae , per quae membrana cerebri similes membranulae deducuntur ; omnesque vertebrae exceptis tribus summis a superiore parte in ipsis processibus paulum desidentis sinus habent ; ab inferiore alios deorsum versus processus exigunt . Summa igitur protinus caput sustinet , per duos sinus receptis exiguis eius processibus ; quo fit , ut caput susum deorsum versum . . . Tuberi exasperatur secunda , superiori parte . . . inferiore . Quod ad circuitum pertinet , pars summa angustiore orbe finitur ; ita superior ei
