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 I

 [p. 44] excitat, frequens solvit. Cum autem frequens non numero sit sed natura . . . , ratione aetatis et temporis, scire licet eum non inutilem esse, quem corporis neque languor neque dolor sequitur. Idem interdiu peior est, noctu tutior, ita tamen, si neque illum cibus, neque hunc cum vigilia labor statim sequitur. Haec firmis servanda sunt, cavendumque ne in secunda valetudine adversae praesidia consumantur.


2. At imbecillis, quo in numero magna pars urbanorum omnesque paene cupidi litterarum sunt, observatio maior necessaria est, ut, quod vel corporis vel loci vel studii ratio detrahit, cura restituat. Ex his igitur qui bene concoxit, mane tuto surget; qui parum, quiescere debet, et si mane surgendi necessitas fuit, redormire; qui non concoxit, ex toto conquiescere ac neque labori se neque exercitationi neque negotiis credere. Qui crudum sine praecordiorum dolore ructat, is ex intervallo aquam frigidam bibere, et se nihilo minus continere.

Habitare vero aedificio lucido, perflatum aestivum, hibernum solem habente; cavere meridianum solem, matutinum et vespertinum frigus, itemque auras fluminum atque stagnorum; minimeque nubilo caelo soli aperienti se . . . committere, ne modo frigus, modo calor moveat; quae res maxime gravidines