Aulus Cornelius Celsus - Aur. Corn. Celsi De Medicina, libri octo - 1748

Rare edition of one of the most important medical treatises of antiquity, transmitted to posterity as a clear and methodical synthesis of Greek and Roman medical knowledge, organized in eight books covering all knowledge related to health, diseases and their treatments -

The work begins with a general introduction on medicine, its origins, its schools (notably the dogmatic, empirical and methodical) and the fundamental principles of observation of the human body, before developing a systematic approach to internal and external pathologies -

Celsus describes in detail the symptoms of diseases, their supposed causes according to ancient medicine, as well as the regimes of life, the diets, the bleedings, the purgations and the natural remedies used to restore the body's balance -

A prominent place is given to surgery, where the author details the operative techniques known in his time: treatment of wounds, fractures, dislocations, extraction of foreign bodies, cauterizations and various interventions, with particular attention paid to pain and the means to reduce it -

Aulus Cornelius Celsus - Aur. Corn. Celsi De Medicina, libri octo - 1748 - Joh. Rudolf Thurneisen -
(About 40 pages) + 749 pages + Index

Good binding condition, the work in its full period calf, wear from use, some minor defects on boards and spine, split joints, head-cap damaged, red edges, smooth spine adorned, gilded title on a red morocco piece, blind fillets cold-stamped around the boards -

Good interior condition, light browning, title page printed in red and black, nice frontispiece portrait of the author, marbled endpapers in good condition, charming copy -

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