The first four books of Aur. Corn. Celsus, De re medica, with an Ordo verborum and literal translation / by John Steggall, M.D.

  • Celsus, Aulus Cornelius.
Date:
1853
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    eaercuerunt lianc arfem, ut ef/amprocesserhifiudiversas vias curandi. ' Que iisdem temj)oribus, medicina ilidiicta est in ires partes: lU esset una qum mederetur victu; altera quae medicamentis; tertia quce manu. Grmci nominaruntprimam ditcteli- cani,secund am pilar tnaceuli- cam, terfiam cliiruryicam. Autem lonye clarissimi auc- tores ejus, qnai curat morbos victu,conati ayitare qumlam etiam altiiis, quoque vindica- runt sitii cognitionem naturm rerum, tanquam medicina esset truncaet dehilis sine ed. Post quos Serapion, primuf omnium professus hanc ra- iionalem disciplinam nihil pertinere ad medicinam, posuit earn taniiim in usu et experimenlis. Qiiem Apollonius, et Glaucias, et aliquanlo post Heraclides Tarentinus, et quoque alii non mediocres viri, secuti, appellaverimt se enipiricos ex professione ipsa. Sic et Erasistratus sic artem banc exer- cueruut,ut etiam in diversascuraudi vias processerint. lisdemque tem- poribus in tres partes medicina didiicta est; ut unaesset quae victu; altera, quae medicamentis; tertia, qufe manu mederetur. Primam biatTr]-iK))i', secundum ^np^akei/rt- Ki)i', tertiam ■x^eipovpynajv, Grteci nominarunt. Ejus autem, quse victu morbos curat, longe clarissimi auc- tores etiam altius qusedam agitare conati, rerum quoque naturae sibi cognitionem vindicarunt, tanquam sine ea, trunca et debilis medicina esset. Post quos Serapion, primus omnium, nihil hanc rationalem disciplinam pertinere ad medicinam professus, in usu tantum et ex- perimentis earn posuit. Quern Apollonius, et Glaucias, et aliquan- to post Heraclides Tarentinus, et alii quoque, non mediocres vii-i, secuti, ex ipsa professione se efiTTeipiKovs appellaverunt. Sic iu practised this art that they even proceeded hy dit^'ereiit modes of cures. At tlie same time medicine was (livided into three hranches : so that tlierc was one which cured hy (Het, anollicr hy medicine, and a third hy manual operation. Tlic Greeks named tlie first dietetic, the second ])liarmaceutic, tlie third chirnrgical. But hy far the most illustrious professors of that hranch which cures diseases l)y diet, endeavouring to investigate some things more deeply, also claimed to themselves a knowledge of the nalure of bodies as if the nuMlical art would he im- perfect aiul weak without it. After whom Serapion, first of all having asserted that this i-alional mode of study did not apjily to medicine, based it oidyon jn aclice and experience: whom A|iollonius and Glaucias, and some time after, Heraclides the Tarentine, and other men of no little note, having followed, styled themselves empirics, from their doctrine it-