On medicine / Celsus ; with an English translation by W.G. Spencer.
| Author/creator | Celsus, Aulus Cornelius author. |
| Other author | Spencer, Walter George, translator. |
| Other author | Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. |
| Other author | Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014. |
| Description | 1 online resource : line illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | v.1 |
| Supplemental Content | v.2 |
| Supplemental Content | v.3 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Loeb Classical Library ; 292, 304, 336 Loeb classical library ; 292, 304, 336. ^A467228 |
| Contents | v. I. Books 1-4 -- v. II. Books 5-6 -- v. III. Books 7-8. |
| Abstract | Celsus, a layman, provides in On Medicine more information about the condition of medical science up to his own time (probably first century CE) than any other author. Book I is on Greek schools of medicine and dietetics; Book II on prognosis, diagnosis, and general therapeutics; Book III on internal ailments; Book IV on local bodily diseases. A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (14-37 CE), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 books on medicine (De Medicina). Book I: after an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic, Methodic, Empiric) of medicine come sensible dietetics or health preservation which will always be applicable. Book II: deals with prognosis, diagnosis of symptoms (which he stresses strongly), and general therapeutics. Book III: internal ailments: fevers and general diseases. Book IV: local bodily diseases. Next come two pharmacological books, Book V: treatment by drugs of general diseases; and Book VI: of local diseases. Book VII and Book VIII deal with surgery; these books contain accounts of many operations, including amputation. Celsus was not a professional doctor of medicine or a surgeon, but a practical layman whose On Medicine, written in a clear and neat style, for lay readers, is partly a result of his medical treatment of his household (slaves included) and partly a presentation of information gained from many Greek authorities. From no other source can we learn so much of the condition of medical science up to his own time. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Celsus is in three volumes. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language | Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. On medicine. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1935 9780674993228(v.1) 9780674993358(v.2) 9780674993709(v.3) |
| ISBN | (v. 1) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 2) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 3) print version |
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