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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.
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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. [1] [2] [3] 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. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition). National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division provided support for entering this text. This text was converted to electronic form by Data Entry and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia.
- c. 25 BC
- Encyclopaedist
- c. 50 AD (aged roughly 75)
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De medicina, now considered one of the finest medical classics, was largely ignored by contemporaries. It was discovered by Pope Nicholas V (1397–1455) and was among the first medical works to be published (1478) after the introduction of the printing press.
Celsus, De Medicina (Codex F). De medicina remains the oldest medical document written after the Hippocratic writings, the earliest surviving major medical treatise written in Latin, and the earliest Western history of medicine.
Sep 28, 2020 · Celsus (c. 25 b.c. –c. 50 a.d.) wrote De medicina, one of the greatest Latin works and a milestone in the development of Western psychiatry. Emerging from lost obscurity, the first complete textbook of medicine to be printed (1478), and used for centuries (first English translation, 1756), De medicina comprises an Introduction and Eight Books ...
