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 I

Liber II
   PROOEMIUM

Liber III

Liber IV

Liber V

Liber VI

Liber VII
   PROOEMIUM

Liber VIII

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Liber VIII
 [p. 482] summae circumdata in latera quoque caput moveri sinit. Tertia eodem modo secundam excipit; ex quo facilis cervici mobilitas est. Ac ne sustineri quidem caput posset, nisi utrimque recti valentesque nervi collum continerent, quos τένοντας Graeci appellant; siquidem horum inter omnes flexus alter semper intentus ultra prolabi superiora non patitur. Iamque vertebra tertia tubercula, quae inferiori inserantur, exigit: ceterae processibus deorsum spectantibus in inferiores insinuantur, ac per sinus, quos utrimque habent, superiores accipiunt, multisque nervis et multa cartilagine continentur. Ac sic, uno flexu modico in promptum dato, ceteris negatis, homo et rectus insistit, et aliquid ad necessaria opera curvatur.

Infra cervicem vero summa costa contra umerum sita est; inde VI inferiores usque ad imum pectus perveniunt; eaeque primis partibus rotundae et leniter quasi capitulatae vertebrarum transversis processibus et ipsis quoque paulum sinuatis inhaerent; inde latescunt et in exteriorem partem recurvatae paulatim in cartilaginem degenerant; eaque parte rursus in interiora leniter flexae committuntur cum osse pectoris. Quod valens et durum a faucibus incipit, ab utroque latere lunatum et a praecordiis iam ipsum quoque cartilagine mollitum terminatur: sub costis vero prioribus, quinque, quas νόθας Graeci nominant, breves tenuioresque atque ipsae quoque