De medicina

About “De medicina”

De Medicina is a 1st-century medical treatise written by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman encyclopedist and possible physician. It is the only surviving part of a larger encyclopedia, with other sections on agriculture, military science, oratory, jurisprudence, and philosophy lost. The text draws from ancient Greek medical knowledge and is regarded as the best surviving work on Alexandrian medicine. It was the first complete medical textbook to be printed and is organized according to the tripartite division of medicine—diet, pharmacology, and surgery—as established by Hippocrates and Asclepiades. The work also addresses disease and treatment, including procedures such as removing missile wounds, controlling bleeding, preventing inflammation, diagnosing internal illnesses, removing kidney stones, and performing amputations. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)