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 II

PROOEMIUM

[p. 86]

1. Igitur saluberrimum ver est, proxime deinde ab hoc hiemps; periculosior quam salubrior aestas, autumnus longe periculosissimus. Ex tempestatibus vero optimae aequales sunt, sive frigidae sive calidae; pessimae, quae maxime variant; quo fit, ut autumnus plurimos opprimat. Nam fere meridianis temporibus calor, nocturnis atque matutinis simulque etiam vespertinis frigus est. Corpus ergo, et aestate et subinde meridianis caloribus relaxatum, subito frigore excipitur. Sed ut eo tempore id maxime fit, sic, quandocumque evenit, noxium est.

Ubi aequalitas autem est, tamen saluberrimi sunt sereni dies; meliores pluvii quam tantum nebulosi nubilive, optimique hieme qui omni vento vacant, aestate quibus favonii perflant. Si genus aliud ventorum est, salubriores septentrionales quam subsolani vel austri sunt, sic tamen haec, ut interdum regionum sorte mutentur. Nam fere ventus ubique a mediterraneis regionibus veniens salubris, a mari gravis est. Neque solum in bono tempestatium habitu certior valetudo est, sed priores morbi quoque, si qui inciderunt, leviores sunt et promptius finiuntur. Pessimum aegro caelum est, quod aegrum