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 VI

 [p. 180] potius subinde corrumpi quam id quod nocet in aliam partem necessariam verti. Commodius est ergo subinde pectendo repurgare quam id ex toto prohibere. Si tamen ea res nimium offendit, quod umore sequente fieri potest, magisque si is etiam mali odoris est, caput saepe radendum est, dein id super adiuvandum aliquis ex leviter reprimentibus, quale est nitrum cum aceto, vel ladanum cum murteo et vino, vel myrobalanum cum vino. Si parum per haec proficitur, vehementioribus uti licet cum eo ut sciamus utique in recenti vitio id inutile esse.


3 Est etiam ulcus, quod a fici similitudine sycosis a Graecis nominatur: caro excrescit. Et id quidem generale est: sub eo vero duae species sunt: alterum ulcus durum et rotundum est, alterum umidum et inaequale. Ex duro exiguum quiddam et glutinosum exit, ex † sumplus et mali odoris. Fit utrumque in is partibus, quae pilis conteguntur: sed id quidem, quod callosum et rotundum est, maxime in barba, id vero, quod umidum, praecipue in capillo.— Super utrumque oportet inponere elaterium aut lini semen contritum et aqua coactum aut ficum in aqua decoctam aut emplastrum tetrapharmacum ex aceto subactum; terra quoque Eretria ex aceto liquata recte inlinitur.


4 Arearum quoque dum genera sunt. Commune