SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

On Medicine · De medicina

Celsus

Translated by Walter George Spencer

The best Roman account of medicine: diet, drugs and surgery, from the history of the art to the treatment of fractures.

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  • Latin: ed. Friedrich Marx, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0836.phi002, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Walter George Spencer, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0836.phi002.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 34

  1. 1Book I · preface
  2. 2Book I · preface, chapters 1–3
  3. 3Book I · chapters 3–10
  4. 4Book II · preface, chapters 1–7
  5. 5Book II · chapters 7–8
  6. 6Book II · chapters 8–15
  7. 7Book II · chapters 16–33
  8. 8Book III · chapters 1–6
  9. 9Book III · chapters 6–16
  10. 10Book III · chapters 17–21
  11. 11Book III · chapters 21–27
  12. 12Book IV · chapters 1–7
  13. 13Book IV · chapters 8–14
  14. 14Book IV · chapters 15–25
  15. 15Book IV · chapters 26–32
  16. 16Book V · chapters 5–18
  17. 17Book V · chapters 19–24
  18. 18Book V · chapters 25–26
  19. 19Book V · chapters 26–27
  20. 20Book V · chapters 27–28
  21. 21Book V · chapter 28
  22. 22Book VI · chapters 1–6
  23. 23Book VI · chapters 6–7
  24. 24Book VI · chapters 7–14
  25. 25Book VI · chapters 15–19
  26. 26Book VII · preface, chapters 1–7
  27. 27Book VII · chapters 7–10
  28. 28Book VII · chapters 11–19
  29. 29Book VII · chapters 19–26
  30. 30Book VII · chapters 26–33
  31. 31Book VIII · chapters 1–3
  32. 32Book VIII · chapters 4–8
  33. 33Book VIII · chapters 9–10
  34. 34Book VIII · chapters 11–25