On Medicine, Volume III: Books 7-8 [Latin]

by Aulus Cornelius Celsus and W.G. Spencer

A Roman layman's account of medicine in his time.

A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37), of a general encyclopedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the eight books on medicine (De Medicina).

In Book I, after an excellent survey of Greek schools...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674993705
• ISBN13: 9780674993709
• Release Date: January 1938
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 6.7"