Of medicine in eight books
By: A. Cornelius Celsus
Contributors: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Edition: New ed. translated, with notes by James Grieve.
Publisher: Dickinson and company
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: und
Number of pages: 42757
Subjects: Greek and Roman Medicine
Notes: Refr: Wellcome p319 Titl: English translation of - De medicina Prov: John D. Comrie, Edin. Univ. Nov. 1908 Note: The oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings, and the first organized treatise on medicine to be printed (1478). Over 105 editions have been published. Written in Rome in the 1st century, Celsus' eight books on medicine originally formed part of a now lost larger encyclopedic work entitled 'Artes'. It contains the first references to mental disorders and heart diseases, the surgical chapters contain the first accounts of the use of ligation, and the earliest descriptions of the repair of mutilations (plastic surgery). Celsus gives the best account of medicine in Roman times, and is the first important medical historian.

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