De Medicina

De Medicina
By Celsus
Edited by: W. G. Spencer (trans.)

Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).

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A. Cornelii Celsi De Medicina
Prooemium

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Liber III

[p. 222] et dolores graves urgent, acutus est morbus: ubi lenti dolores lentaeve febres sunt et spatia inter accessiones porrigunt, acceduntque ea signa, quae priore volumine (II. 5, 2, 3) exposita sunt, longum hunc futurum esse manifestum est. Videndum etiam est, morbus an increscat, an consistat, an minuatur, quia quaedam remedia increscentibus morbis, plura inclinatis conveniunt; eaque, quod descrescentibus apta sunt, ubi acutus increscens urget, in remissionibus potius experienda sunt. Increscit autem morbus, dum graviores dolores accessionesque veniunt, eaeque et ante, quam proximae, revertuntur et postea desinunt. Atque in longis quoque morbis etiam tales notas non habentibus scire licet increscere, si somnus incertus est, si deterior concoctio, si foediores deiectiones, si tardior sensus, si pigrior mens, si percurrit corpus frigus aut calor, si id magis pallet. Ea vero, quae contraria his sunt, decedentis eius notae sunt. . . . Praeter haec in acutis morbis serius aeger alendus est, nec nisi iam iis inclinatis, ut primo dempta materia impetum frangat, in longis maturius, ut sustinere spatium adfecturi mali possit. Ac si quando is non in toto corpore sed in parte est, magis tamen ad rem pertinet vim totius corporis moliri quam proprie partis aegrae sanitatem.