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CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS C.25 B.C.E.-50 C.E. GRIEVE, JAMES, translator. Of Medicine. In Eight Books. London: D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1756.
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CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS C.25 B.C.E.-50 C.E.
GRIEVE, JAMES, translator. Of Medicine. In Eight Books. London: D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1756.
8vo (223 x 138 mm). Modern calf antique, original endpaper with bookplate loosely inserted. Library stamps to title page, scattered foxing and spotting.
Provenance: Norwich and Norfolk Medical Book Society (stamps, flyer laid down to front paste-down); Dr. A.R. Hodgson, Hong Kong (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Celsus' De medicina, the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings, was the first of the treatises on medicine from the ancient world to be published in English. Virtually all of Hippocrates, Galen and other classical writers on medicine and surgery waited until the nineteenth or twentieth century to be translated into English. Celsus remains the most important source of present-day knowledge of medicine in the Roman empire. Prioreschi A History of Medicine vol III pp 182-211; Garrison-Morton-Norman 21 (note).
8vo (223 x 138 mm). Modern calf antique, original endpaper with bookplate loosely inserted. Library stamps to title page, scattered foxing and spotting.
Provenance: Norwich and Norfolk Medical Book Society (stamps, flyer laid down to front paste-down); Dr. A.R. Hodgson, Hong Kong (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Celsus' De medicina, the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings, was the first of the treatises on medicine from the ancient world to be published in English. Virtually all of Hippocrates, Galen and other classical writers on medicine and surgery waited until the nineteenth or twentieth century to be translated into English. Celsus remains the most important source of present-day knowledge of medicine in the Roman empire. Prioreschi A History of Medicine vol III pp 182-211; Garrison-Morton-Norman 21 (note).