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 VI

Dixi de iis vitiis, quae per totum corpus orientia medicamentorum auxilia desiderant (V.26, 27, 28): nunc ad ea veniam, quae non nisi in singulis partibus incidere consuerunt, orsus a capite.

In hoc igitur capillis fluentibus maxime quidem saepe radendo succurritur. Adicit autem vim quandam ad continendum ladanum cum oleo mixtum. Nunc de iis capillis loquor, qui post morbum fere fluunt: nam quominus caput quibusdam aetate nudetur, succurri nullo modo potest.

2 Porrigo autem est, ubi inter pilos quaedam quasi squamulae surgunt haeque a cute resolvuntur: et interdum madent, multo saepius siccae sunt. Idque evenit modo sine ulcere, modo exulcerato loco, huic quoque modo malo odore, modo nullo accedente. Fereque id in capillo fit, rarius in barba, aliquando etiam in supercilio. Ac neque sine aliquo vitio corporis nascitur neque ex toto inutile est: nam bene integro capite non exit.— Ubi aliquod in eo vitium est, non incommodum est summam cutem