Volume 1

On medicine, in eight books, Latin and English / Translated from L. Targa's ed., the words of the text being arranged in the order of construction. To which are prefixed, a life of the author [by J. Rhodius], tables of weights and measures, with explanatory notes, etc., designed to facilitate the progress of medical students. By Alex. Lee.

  • Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Date:
1831-1836
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Credit: On medicine, in eight books, Latin and English / Translated from L. Targa's ed., the words of the text being arranged in the order of construction. To which are prefixed, a life of the author [by J. Rhodius], tables of weights and measures, with explanatory notes, etc., designed to facilitate the progress of medical students. By Alex. Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ORDO. donec cicatricula sit valens ; qua confirmatur celerrime in vena. est, donec valens cicatricula sit; quse celerrime in vena confirmatur. TRANSLATION. up immediately, and kept in that position, until the cicatrix be formed, which is very soon accomplished in a vein. H CAP. XI. DE SANGUINIS DETRACTIONE PER CUCURBITULAS. CUCURBITULARUM vero duo genera sunt; æneum, et corneum. /Enea, al- tera parte patet, altera, clausa est: cornea, altera parte æque patens, altera, foramen habet exiguum. In æneam linamentum ardens conjicitur, ac sic os ejus corpori aptatur, imprimiturque, do- nec inhæreat. Cornea per se corpori imponitur ; deinde, ubi ea parte, qua exiguum foramen est, ore spiritus adductus est, superque cera cavum id clau- sum est, sque inhærescit. Utra- que non ex his tantum materiæ generi- ORDO. CAP. XI. DE DETRACTIONE SANGUINIS PER CUCURBITULAS. VERO sunt duo genera cucurbi- tularum ; æneum, et corneum. ‘Enea, patet altera parte, est clausa altera : cornea, patens eque altera parte, habet exigu- um foramen altera. Ardens li- nimentum conjicitur in zineam, ac sic os ejus aptatur corpori, que imprimitur, donec inhereat. Cornea imponitur corpori per se; deinde, ubi spiritus est ad- ductus ore ea parte, qua exi- guum foramen est, que id ca- vum est super clausum cera, in- herescit zque. Utraque fit recte non tantum ex his gene- ribus materie, sed etiam ex quo- libet alio. Ac si cetera defece- runt, quoque caliculus aut pulta- rius, compressioris oris, aptatur commode ei rei, Ubi inhesit, si cutis est concisa scalpello ante, — bus, sed etiam ex quolibet alio recte fit. Ac si cetera defecerunt, caliculus quo- que aut pultarius, oris compressioris, ei rei commode aptatur. Ubi inheesit, si concisa ante scalpello cutis est, sangui- TRANSLATION. CHAP. XI. OF CUPPING. Now there are two kinds of CUPPING INSTRUMENTS ; one made of brass, the other — of horn. The brazen is open at one end, and close at the other; that of horn is likewise open at one end, and a small foramen in the other. Burning lintis thrown l into the brass one, and then its mouth applied to the body, and there pressed until it adhere. The horn one is applied to the body by itself; and afterwards the air being exhausted by the mouth at that part where the small opening is, and the small ori- fice immediately closed with wax, it adheres as well as the other. Each of these may be made very properly not only of these materials, but of any other. If no- thing else can be had, a small cup, or a narrow-mouthed pipkin will answer the | purpose. When it adheres, if the skin have been scarified previously with a lancet,