Of Medicine, in Eight Books
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Of Medicine, in Eight Books is the work of Aulus Cornelius Celsus, here in English. A transcriber's note describes it as a compilation of eight smaller books with eight sets of numbered explanatory notes, and the contents list the chapters of each book.
The text includes plasters called malagmas, such as those of Lysias, Apollophanes and Andreas, with ingredients like opopanax, galbanum, resin, wax and suet, used for abscesses, joints and pains of the sides. In the contents, Book VIII begins with the situation and figure of the bones of the human body, followed by disorders of the bones and fractures of the skull and nose. Operations on varices in the legs and on cohering and crooked fingers are also listed.
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- Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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