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. 288] cui paulum squamae, fuliginis, calcis si adiectum. Si hac ratione non tollitur, vel medicamentis vehementioribus vel ferro adurendum est.


19 Digitorum autem vetera ulcera commodissime curantur aut Lycio aut amurca cocta, cum utrilibet vinum adiectum est. In iisdem recedere ab ungue caruncula cum magno dolore consuevit: pterygion Graeci appellant.— Oportet alumen Melinum rotundum in aqua liquare, donec mellis crassitudinem habeat; tum quantum eius aridi fuit, tantundem mellis infundere, et rudicula miscere, donec similis croco color efficiat, eoque inliner. Quidam . . . ad eundem usum decoquere simul malunt, cum paria pondera aluminis aridi et mellis miscuerunt. Si hac ratione ea non exciderunt, excidenda sunt; de digiti fovendi aqua ex verbenis, inponendumque super medicamentum ita factum: chalcitis, malicorium, squama aeris excipiuntur fico pingui leniter cocta ex melle; aut chartae combustae, auripigmenti, sulpuris ignem non experti par modus cerato miscetur ex murteo facto; aut aeruginis rasae P.  I, squamae P.  II mellis cyatho coguntur; aut pares potiones miscentur saxi calcis, chalcitidis, auripigmenti. Quicquid horum impositum est, tegendum linteolo aqua madefacto est. Tertio die digitus resolvendus,