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Aulus Cornelius Celsus was born in 25 BC. Nothing is known about the life of Celsus. Even his praenomen is uncertain; he has been called both Aurelius and Aulus, with the latter being more plausible.
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De Medicina
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De Medicina is a 1st-century medical treatise by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman encyclopedist and possibly (but not likely) a practicing physician. It is the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia; only small parts still survive from sections on agriculture, military science, oratory, jurisprudence and philosophy. De Medicina draws upon knowledge from ancient Greek works, and is considered the best surviving treatise on Alexandrian medicine. Its "encyclopedic arrangement follows the tripartite division of medicine at the time as established by Hippocrates and Asclepiades diet, pharmacology, and surgery." This work also covers the topics of disease and therapy. Sections detail the removal of missile weapons, stopping bleeding, preventing inflammation, diagnosis of internal maladies, removal of kidney stones, the amputation of limbs and so forth.
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The Eight Books On Medicine Of Aurelius Cornelius Celsus: With A Literal And Interlineal Translation On The Principles Of The Hamiltonian System: Adapted For Students Of Medicine, Volume 2
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A. Cornelius Celsus of Medicine: In Eight Books; Translated, With Notes Critical and Explanatory (Classic Reprint)
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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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He was a disciple of Asclepiades, a Bithynian physician practicing in Rome. But, unlike his master, Celsus was a great admirer of the Greek Hippocrates and was among the foremost to introduce the Greek physician's teachings among the Romans.
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Celsus became known as "the Latin Hippocrates. "His literary interest was encyclopedic; his work, bearing the title Artes, embraced rhetoric, history, philosophy, war, agriculture, government, law, and medicine. The section pertaining to medicine, De re medica, is the only part of this work that has survived and this has taken its place with Corpus Hippocraticum (the entire works of Hippocrates) and with the works of Galen as a monument of ancient medicine. Celsus's anatomical descriptions were brief but clearly presented. He was against human vivisection but favored disection of cadavers. He argued that the pulse was an uncertain indicator of the state of health of a person because it varied with sex, age, and the constitution of the patient. He noted that even temporary derangements of digestion rendered the pulse weak. Celsus's description of malarial fever cannot be surpassed. His view that fever was an effort on the part of nature to eliminate morbid material from the body was far in advance of his time. Speaking of serpent poison, he recommended extracting it from the wound by sucking. He believed that the venom of a serpent was not injurious when swallowed and was lethal only when absorbed into a wound. Experiments have proven this to be true; swallowed venom is inactivated by the gastric juices. Celsus suggested lithotomy - an operation for crushing stones in the bladder. He described plastic operations for the repair of the nose, lips, and ears. He concerned himself with the treatment of wounds, fractures, dislocations, bone decay, and necrosis. He described fistulas, ulcers, tumors, hernias, amputations, and trepanation (the removal of part of the skull). He presented methods for stopping hemorrhages and discussed ligatures.
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The Eight Books On Medicine Of Aurelius Cornelius Celsus: With A Literal And Interlineal Translation On The Principles Of The Hamiltonian System: Adapted For Students Of Medicine, Volume 2
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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De Medicina
(De Medicina is a 1st-century medical treatise by Aulus Co...)
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A. Cornelius Celsus of Medicine: In Eight Books; Translated, With Notes Critical and Explanatory (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from A. Cornelius Celsus of Medicine: In Eight Bo...)
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The Eight Books On Medicine Of Aurelius Cornelius Celsus: With A Literal And Interlineal Translation On The Principles Of The Hamiltonian System: Adapted For Students Of Medicine, Volume 2
