Volume 1

On medicine, in eight books, Latin and English / Translated from L. Targa's ed., the words of the text being arranged in the order of construction. To which are prefixed, a life of the author [by J. Rhodius], tables of weights and measures, with explanatory notes, etc., designed to facilitate the progress of medical students. By Alex. Lee.

  • Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Date:
1831-1836
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Credit: On medicine, in eight books, Latin and English / Translated from L. Targa's ed., the words of the text being arranged in the order of construction. To which are prefixed, a life of the author [by J. Rhodius], tables of weights and measures, with explanatory notes, etc., designed to facilitate the progress of medical students. By Alex. Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A. CORN. CELSI DE MEDICINA LIBER PRIMUS. PREFATIO. Ur alimenta sanis corporibus agri- cultura, sic sanitatem sgris medicina promittit. Hæc nusquam quidem non est. Siquidem etiam imperitissimze gentes herbas, aliaque prompta in auxi- lium vulnerum, morborumque noverunt. Veruntamen apud Grecos aliquanto magis quam in ceteris nationibus ex- culta est, ac ne apud hos quidem à prima origine, sed paucis ante nos secu- lis; utpote cum vetustissimus auctor Afsculapius celebretur. Qui quoniam adhuc rudem et vulgarem, hanc scien- tiam paulo subtilius excoluit, in Deorum numerum receptus est. Hujus deinde duo filii, Podalirius et Machaon, bello ORDO. LIBER PRIMUS AUR. COR. CELSI DE MEDICINA. — PREFATIO. Ur agricultura promittit ali- menta sanis corporibus, sic medi- cina (promittit) sanitatem egris. Quidem, nusquam, hzc non est. Siquidem etiam imperitissime gentes noverunt herbas, que alia prompta in auxilium vulnerum, que morborum. Veruntamen ex- culta est apud Grecos aliquanto magis, quam in ceteris nationi- bus, ac ne quidem, apud hos a prima origine, sed paucis seculis ante nos; utpote cum /Escula- pius celebretur vetustissimus auctor. Qui, quoniam excoluit hanc scientiam adhuc rudem et vulgarem, paulo subtilius, recep- tus est in numerum Deorum. Deinde, hujus duo filii, Poda- lirius et Machaon, secuti ducem Agamemnonem bello Trojano, Trojano ducem Agamemnonem secuti, TRANSLATION. THE FIRST BOOK OF ' AURELIUS CORNELIUS CELSUS ON MEDICINE. PREFACE (1) (a). As agriculture provides aliment to the sound body, so medicine does health to the sick, Indeed, no part of the world is without this art. For the most uncultivated nations know the properties of herbs, and other prompt remedies for wounds and diseases. But it was cultivated by the Greeks, a little more than other nations, yet not even by them from the origin of that people, but a few ages before us; as it - would appear /Esculapius is celebrated as their most ancient author, who, because he cultivated this art, hitherto rude and barbarous, a little more skilfully, was re- ceived into the number of their gods. Afterwards, his two sons, Podalirius (2) and Machaon, having followed their geheral, Agamemnon, to the Trojan war, did not’ (a) The numbers (1), (2), (3), &c. refer to Notes at the end of the volume, B