Aulus Cornelius Celsus

Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman writer who lived around the beginning of the first century AD, probably in the reign of the emperor Tiberius. Almost nothing is known about his life, and scholars disagree about whether he practiced as a physician or was a learned landowner writing for others like himself. He wrote a large encyclopedia in Latin, the Artes, covering subjects such as farming, law, rhetoric, philosophy, military science and medicine, but only the eight books on medicine, De Medicina, survive. They describe diet, drugs and surgery, summarize the debates between different Greek medical schools, and give the classic description of inflammation by its four signs of redness, swelling, heat and pain. The work was little noticed in the Middle Ages but was rediscovered in the fifteenth century and was among the first medical books printed, in 1478. Its clear Latin earned Celsus the nickname 'the Cicero of medicine' among later readers.

Aulus Cornelius Celsus is also an author in the library: author page and works.

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