This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[p. 12] potionemque et adsumimus et concoquimus, itemque per quas eadem haec in omnes membrorum partes digeruntur. Tum requirunt etiam, quare venae nostrae modo summittant se, modo attollant; quae ratio somni, quae vigiliae sit; sine quorum notitia neminem putant vel occurrere vel mederi morbis inter haec nascentibus posse. Ex quibus quia maxime pertinere ad rem concoctio videtur, huic potissimum insistunt; et duce alii Erasistrato teri cibum in ventre contendunt, alii Plistonico Praxagorae discipulo putrescere; alii credunt Hippocrati per calorem cibos concoqui; acceduntque Asclepiadis aemuli, qui omnia ista vana et supervacua esse proponunt: nihil enim concoqui, sed crudam materiam, sicut adsumpta est, in corpus omne diduci. Et haec quidem inter eos parum constant: illud vero convenit, alium dandum cibum laborantibus, si hoc, alium, si illud verum est: nam si teritur intus, eum quaerendum esse, qui facillime teri possit; si putrescit, eum, in quo hoc expeditissimum est; si calor concoquit, eum, qui maxime calorem movet: at nihil ex his esse quaerendum, si nihil concoquitur, ea vero sumenda, quae maxime manent, qualia adsumpta sunt. Eademque ratione, cum spiritus gravis est, cum somnus aut vigilia urguet, eum mederi posse arbitrantur, qui prius illa ipsa qualiter eveniant perceperit. Praeter haec, cum in interioribus partibus et
De Medicina. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).
National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by Data Entry and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.