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 VII

PROOEMIUM

 [p. 298] praepositisque is, quae in qualibet corporis parte fiunt (capp. I-V), ad ea, quae proprias sedes habent transibo.


1 Luxata igitur, in quacumque parte corporis sunt, quam primum sic curari debent, ut, qua dolor est, ea scalpello cutis crebro incidatur, detergeaturque eodem averso profluens sanguis. Quod si paulo tardius subvenitur iamque etiam rubor est, qua rubet corpus si tumor quoque accessit, quacumque is est, id optimum auxilium est. Tum superdanda reprimentia sunt, maximeque lana sucida ex aceto et oleo. Quod si levior is casus est, possunt etiam sine scalpello inposita eadem mederi; et si nihil aliud est, cinis quoque maxime ex sarmentis (si is non est, quilibet alius) ex aceto vel etiam ex aqua coactus.


2 Verum hoc quidem promptum est: in iis autem negotium maius est, quae per se vitio intus orto intumescunt et ad suppurationem spectant. Ea omnia genera abscessum esse alias (V.28.11) proposui, medicamentaque his idonea executus sum: nunc superest, ut dicam in iisdem quae manu fieri debeant. Ergo priusquam indurescant, cutem incidere et cucurbitulam adcommodare oportet, quae quicquid illuc malae corruptaeque materiae coiit, extrahat; idque iterum tertio die recte fit, donec