Of medicine in eight books
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- Of medicine in eight books
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- 1814
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Of medicine in eight books
Author: Greive, James, -1773
Year: 1814
Refr: Wellcome p319 Titl: English translation of - De medicina Prov: John D. Comrie, Edin. Univ. Nov. 1908 Note: The oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings, and the first organized treatise on medicine to be printed (1478). Over 105 editions have been published. Written in Rome in the 1st century, Celsus' eight books on medicine originally formed part of a now lost larger encyclopedic work entitled 'Artes'. It contains the first references to mental disorders and heart diseases, the surgical chapters contain the first accounts of the use of ligation, and the earliest descriptions of the repair of mutilations (plastic surgery). Celsus gives the best account of medicine in Roman times, and is the first important medical historian
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