Of Medicine, in Eight Books

Name: Of Medicine, in Eight Books
Author: Celsus, Aulus Cornelius

Celsus, Aulus Cornelius

Medicine, Greek and Roman

XVIII. Of malagmas, in all thirty-six recited,                   194

      XIX. Of plaisters, in all twenty-nine recited,                 201

       XX. Of troches, in all seven recited,                         207

      XXI. Of pessaries, in all seven recited,                       208

     XXII. Medicines, used either in a dry form, or mixed with
           liquids,                                                  210

    XXIII. Of antidotes, and their use,                              212

     XXIV. Of acopa,                                                 213

      XXV. Of catapotia,                                             214

     XXVI. Of five different kinds of disorders incident to the
           body; and of the nature, symptoms, and cure of wounds,    217

           Bad consequences from wounds,                             230

           Cure of an old ulcer,                                     231

           Cure of an erysipelas,                                    232

           Cure of a gangrene,                                       232

    XXVII. Of wounds caused by bites, poisons taken internally,
           and burns,                                                235

   XXVIII. Of external disorders proceeding from internal causes,
           and their cure,                                           240

           Of a carbuncle,                                           241

           Of a cancer,                                              242

           Of a therioma,                                            244

           Of the ignis sacer,                                       245

           Of the chironian ulcer,                                   246

           Of ulcers occasioned by cold,                             247

           Of the scrophula,                                         247

           Of a furuncle,                                            248

           Of phymata,                                               248

           Of a phygethlon,                                          248

           Of abscesses,                                             248

           Of fistulas,                                              250

           Of the cerion ulcer,                                      253

           Of the acrochordon, &c.                                   254

           Of pustules,                                              256

           Of the scabies,                                           257

           Of the impetigo,                                          258

           Of the papula,                                            258

           Of the vitiligo,                                          259

  BOOK VI.

  CHAP. I. Of hairs falling off the head,                            261

       II. Of a porrigo,                                             261

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