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 II
PROOEMIUM

Liber VII
PROOEMIUM

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Liber IV

[p. 354]

1 Hactenus reperiuntur ea genera morborum, quae in totis corporibus ita sunt, ut is certae sedes adsignari non possint: nunc de iis dicam, quae sunt in partibus. Facilius autem omnium interiorum morbi curationesque in notitiam venient, si prius eorum sedes breviter ostendero.

Caput igitur, eaque, quae in ore sunt, non lingua tantummodo palatoque terminantur, sed etiam quatenus oculis nostris exposita sunt. In dextra sinistraque circa guttur venae grandes, quae sphagitides nominantur, itemque arteriae, quas carotidas vocant, sursum procedentes ultra aures feruntur. At in ipsis cervicibus glandulae positae sunt, quae interdum cum dolore intumescunt.

Deinde duo itinera incipiunt: alterum asperam arteriam nominant, alterum stomachum. Arteria exterior ad pulmonem, stomachus interior ad ventriculum fertur; illa spiritum, hic cibum recipit. Quibus cum diversae viae sint, qua coeunt exigua in arteria sub ipsis faucibus lingua est; quae, cum spiramus, attollitur, cum cibum potionemque adsu-