Description
Grieve, James. A. Cornelius Celsus / Of / Medicine / in Eight Books / Translated / With Notes Critical and Explanatory / By James Greive, M. D. / London, / Printed by D. Wilson and T. Durham, at / Plato’s Head in the Strand. / MDCCLVI (Garrison & Morton 6375 – “Oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about A. D. 30, it remains the greatest medical treatise from Ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine… First English translation.”)
Octavo. xxxii, 519, plus index. Hardbound. Bound in calf covered boards with five bands and single horizontal rules creating six panels. Leather label stamped “Greive’s / Celsus”
Condition: VG+. Boards appear to be reattached, possibly other restoration (Quality work). Hinges are cracked, previous owner’s signature on first free endpaper (N. C. Barbry 1931). Minor bug damage on first two blank pages not encroaching on printed pages. Slight bumping to corners.
This is the first English translation of the second book on medicine. Written by Aulus Aurelius Cornelius Celsus around the time of Christ, “De Medicina is a primary source on diet, pharmacy, surgery and related fields, and it is one of the best sources concerning medical knowledge in the Roman world.”
“Of the numerous volumes of his encyclopedia, only one remains intact, his celebrated treatise On Medicine (De Medicina). “The work’s encyclopedic arrangement follows the tripartite division of medicine at the time as established by Hippocrates and Asclepiades — diet, pharmacology, and surgery.” It is divided into eight books.
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Book 1 – The History of Medicine (includes references to eighty medical authors, some of whom are known only through this book)
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Book 2 – General Pathology
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Book 3 – Specific Diseases
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Book 4 – Parts of the Body
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Book 5 and 6 – Pharmacology
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Book 7 – Surgery
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Book 8 – Orthopedics
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A must have book for all serious collectors of Medical Books.
