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[p. 4] eo nomen trahant, a quo plurimum petunt. Ergo et illa, quae victu curat, aliquando medicamentum adhibet, et illa, quae praecipue medicamentis pugnat, adhibere etiam ratione victus debet, quae multum admodum in omnibus corporis malis proficit. Sed cum omnia medicamenta propria facultates habeant, ac simplicia saepe opitulentur, saepe mixta, non alienum videtur ante proponere et nomina et vires et mixturas eorum (capp. I-XXV), qui minor ipse nobis curationes exsequentibus mora sit.
1 Sanguinem supprimunt atramentum sutorium, quod Graeci chalcanthon appellant, chalcities, acacia, et ex aqua Lycium, tus, aloe, cummi, plumbum combustum, porrum, herba sanguinalis; creta vel Cimolia vel figularis, misy; frigida aqua, vinum, acetum; alumen Melinum, squama et ferri et aeris atque huius quoque duae species sunt, alia tantum aeris, alia rubria aeris.
2 Glutinant vulnus murra, tus, cummi, praecipueque acanthinum; psylleum, tragacantha, cardamomon, bulbi, lini semen, nasturcium; ovi album, gluten, icthyocolla; vitis alba, contusae cum testis suis cocleae, mel coctum; spongia vel ex aqua frigida vel ex vino vel ex aceto expressa; ex iisdem lana sucida; si levis plaga est, etiam aranea. Reprimunt alumen et scissile, quod sxito/n vocatur, et liquidum; Melinum, auripigmentum, aerugo, chalcitis, atramentum sutorium.
De Medicina. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).
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