Transcriber’s notes: This e-book has an unusual structure, being a compilation of eight smaller books accompanied by eight related sets of _numbered_ explanatory notes provided by the author. It also contains several hundred footnotes scattered throughout the text (many being Greek spellings of words in the text). These have been given _alphabetic_ labels and are now grouped together as endnotes. Numerous asterisks are present in parts of the text; these represent uncertain quantities, not footnotes. The text also contains archaic characters that may not display correctly with all viewing devices or fonts. For best viewing, the device’s character encoding should be set to Unicode (UTF-8), and one of the following fonts selected: Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu, Segoe UI Symbol or FreeSerif. The text has been preserved as in the original, including inconsistent punctu­ation, capitalis­ation and hyphen­ation. Archaic and inconsistent spellings have been retained except where obviously misspelled in the original. A list of these and other corrections has been appended at the end. A. CORN. CELSUS OF MEDICINE _IN EIGHT BOOKS_. TRANSLATED WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY BY JAMES GREIVE, M.D. _A NEW EDITION._ EDINBURGH: Printed at the University Press; FOR DICKINSON AND COMPANY, INFIRMARY-STREET. 1814. TO MR SHARP, SURGEON TO GUY’S HOSPITAL, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SURGERY AT PARIS. SIR, The favourable opinion you have been pleased to express of the following translation, and the trouble you have taken to revise the chirurgical part, are obligations, which I embrace this opportunity of acknowledging with the highest pleasure. And though I had not received such marks of your friendship, yet there is no person, to whom a translation of CELSUS can be more properly addressed; since no writer in this age appears to have a more just esteem for this excellent author, or to have imitated his conciseness and elegance, with so much success. I am, with great esteem, SIR, your most obedient, humble servant, JAMES GREIVE. LONDON, _January 26th, 1756_. PREFACE.