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(200 x 128 mm) 8vo. [lxx], 749, [27] pp. Engraved frontis. port., title in red and black, headpieces, tailpieces, floriated initials, engraved port., 2 engraved figs. (at pages 594, 690), indexes; top edge of pages [xxi-xxvi] torn, ms. notes in rear end-papers. Modern quarter brown speckled calf, calf corners, marbled boards, gilt spine, new end-leaves. Fine. A reprint of the 1746 edition. A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (14â Â"37 CE), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 books on medicine (De Medicina). Book I: after an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic, Methodic, Empiric) of medicine come sensible dietetics or health preservation which will always be applicable (pp. 1-40). Book II: deals with prognosis, diagnosis of symptoms (which he stresses strongly), and general therapeutics (pp. 41+). Book III: internal ailments: fevers and general diseases (pp. 111+). Book IV: local bodily diseases (pp. 182+). Next come two pharmacological books, Book V: treatment by drugs of general diseases (pp. 241+) ; and Book VI: of local diseases (pp. 342+). Book VII (pp. 405+) and Book VIII (pp. 498+) deal with surgery; these books contain accounts of many operations, including amputation. / Notes in this edition are supplied by John Caesarius, Robert Constantine, Joseph Scaliger , Isaac Casauboni, John Baptista Morgagni. / Robert Constantin (1530? -1605) was a 16th-century French physician, hellenist, bibliographer, lexicographer and humanist. / Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history. / Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England. He studied at the University of Geneva. / Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) was an Italian anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology. / A biography of Celsus is supplied by Johan Rode [Rhode] (1587-1659) was a Danish physician who worked mainly in Italy. Blake/NLM, p. 82. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers S14050
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