Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman encyclopedist, renowned for his surviving medical work, De Medicina. Believed to be the sole extant portion of a much larger encyclopedia, De Medicina serves as a primary source for understanding diet, pharmacy, surgery, and related fields. His writings offer invaluable insights into the medical knowledge of the Roman world. Though much of his extensive work is lost, it is thought to have covered topics such as agriculture, law, rhetoric, and military arts.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus' De Medicina Libri 8 is a classic text on general medicine. Written in the 1st century AD, this work covers a wide range of medical topics including surgery, disease, and pharmacology. A must-read for medical students, physicians, and history enthusiasts alike.
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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.