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BOOK I.
PREFACE			1
CHAP.?I.		Rules for the healthy,	16
	II.	Rules for valetudinary people,	17
	III.	Observations suited to new incidents, and the different constitutions, sexes, and ages; and the seasons of the year,	19
	IV.	Rules for those that have a weakness in the head,	26
	V.	Directions for those that labour under a lippitude, gravedo, catarrh, and disorders of the tonsils,	27
	VI.	The proper regimen for people liable to a purging,	28
	VII.	Rules for those that are liable to a pain of the colon,	29
	VIII.	Rules for one that has a weak stomach,	29
	IX.	Directions for those that are liable to pains of the nerves,	30
	X.	Directions in a pestilence,	31
BOOK II.
PREFACE,			33
CHAP.?I.		Of the different seasons, weather, ages, constitutions, and the diseases peculiar to each,	34
	II.	Of the signs of an approaching illness,	38
	III.	Good symptoms in sick people,	39
	IV.	Bad symptoms in sick people,	40
	V.	Signs of long sickness,	42
	VI.	The symptoms of death,	43
	VII.	Of the signs in particular diseases,	46
	VIII.	What symptoms are dangerous, or hopeful in particular diseases,	52
	IX.	Of the cure of diseases,	59
	X.	Of bleeding,	60
	XI.	Of cupping,	64
	XII.	Of purging by internal medicines and clysters,	65
	XIII.	Of vomiting,	67
	XIV.	Of friction,	68
	XV.	Of gestation,	70
	XVI.	Of abstinence,	71
	XVII.	Of sweating,	72
	XVIII.	The different kinds of food and drink,	74
	XIX.	General properties of different foods,	77
	XX.	Of things containing good juices,	78
	XXI.	Of foods containing bad juices,		III.	Medicines for promoting a suppuration,	188
	IV.	Medicines for opening wounds,	188
	V.	Cleansers,	188
	VI.	Corroding medicines,	189
	VII.	Eating medicines,	189
	VIII.	Caustics,	190
	IX.	Medicines for forming crusts upon ulcers,	190
	X.	Resolvents for crusts,	190
	XI.	Discutients,	191
	XII.	Evacuating and drawing medicines,	191
	XIII.	Lenients,	191
	XIV.	Incarning medicines,	192
	XV.	Emollients,	192
	XVI.	Cleansers of the skin,	192
	XVII.	Of the mixture of simples, and the proportion of the weights,	193
	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, td class="tdc pt2b1" colspan="4"> BOOK VIII.
CHAP.?I.		Of the situation and figure of the bones of the human body	381
	II.	General division of disorders in the bones. Of a blackness and caries, and their treatment	388
	III.	Of the use of the modiolus, and perforator, and other instruments, especially for the bones of the head	390
	IV.	Of fractures of the skull	393
	V.	Of fractures of the nose	399
	VI.	Of fractures of the ears	400
	VII.	Of a fractured maxilla, together with some general observations relating to fractures	401
	VIII.	Of a fractured clavicle	402
	IX.	Of fractures of the ribs and spine	404
	X.	Of fractures of the humerus, fore-arm, thigh, leg, fingers, and toes	406
	XI.	Of luxations	414
	XII.	Of a luxated maxilla	416
	XIII.	Of a luxation of the head	417
	XIV.	Of a luxation of the spine	418
	XV.	Of a luxation of the humerus	419
	XVI.	Of a luxation of the cubitus	420
	XVII.	Of a luxated hand	421
	XVIII.	Of luxations in the palm	422
	XIX.	Of luxations of the fingers	422
	XX.	Of a luxation of the femur	423
	XXI.	Of a luxation of the knee	424
	XXII.	Of a luxated ancle	425
	XXIII.	Of luxations in the soles of the feet	425
	XXIV.	Of luxated toes	426
	XXV.	Of luxations attended with a wound	426

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Roman measures of capacity for things liquid, reduced to english wine measure, the wine pint holding 287/8 solid inches.

No. I.

Possibly No. I. may be better understood in the following form.

No. II.

Roman measures of capacity for things dry, reduced to english corn measure, the english corn pint holding 33 3/5 inches.

No. III.

The same table in another form.

No. IV.

Note, The tables, No. I. and No. III. are exactly copied from Dr Arbuthnot, No. XII. and XIII. I have here gone no higher than the sextarius, as that is the greatest measure mentioned by Celsus; it has its name from making the sixth part of the Roman congius.

I would have taken the table of weights from Dr Arbuthnot also, if he had given one accommodated to Celsus; but as he has not, I have composed the following, No. VI. according to the division of Celsus himself, who tells us[ U ], that he divides the uncia, or ounce, into seven denarii, and the denarius into six sextantes.

Besides these, in several compositions our author uses semuncia and sescuncia, that is half an ounce and ounce and half; and to save the reader the trouble of reduction, I have given them also a place in the table.

The accurate Mr Greaves[ V ], from repeated experiments, concluded the Roman denarius to contain 62 grains English Troy weight, from which the proportions of the other weights are determined.

No. V.

Celsus’s weights compared with apothecaries’ weights.

No. VI.

Note 1st. The Romans divided all integers, as they did their as, into twelve equal parts called unciÆ. Thus the sextans was the sixth part of the as, containing two of these unciÆ, quadrans one fourth, or three unciÆ, triens the third part, or four unciÆ, semis one half, or six unciÆ, bes or bessis two-thirds, or eight unciÆ, dodrans three-fourths being nine unciÆ. The weight of these then differs, as the integer is the libra, the uncia, or denarius, which the attentive reader will easily reduce, if he is disposed to calculate the quantities, observing that they are not to be taken for aliquot parts of the denarius, but when they follow the mark of the denarius. The integer preceding, and the nature of the composition will be the best explication.

Note 2. The denarius mark was X or ??, as containing originally ten small asses. This by the copiers has been often confounded with X, denoting the number of ten denarii; so that after all the pains of critics and commentators, the proportions of the ingredients in several compositions seem to be irrecoverably lost. For this reason, I suppose the later editors have thought fit to change it for the common asterisk.

Note 3. The characters for quantities are variously marked in different authors, and the same note has several values. There is one of this uncertainty in Celsus, that is Z, which we are told expresses the libra, the sescuncia, the sextans of a pound, the denarius and the sextans of a denarius[ W ]. Which of these different values it bears in any particular place must be determined by the connection. When it follows the mark of the denarius, it can mean no more than the sextans of a denarius.

Note 4. p. stands for pondo, which is an indeclinable word, and when joined with numbers, signifies libra or a pound; when with other weights, it stands for no more than pondus or weight in general.

For an example of the reduction of Celsus’s weights to ours, the following may serve.

Lib. v. cap. 19. no. 7. Philotas’s plaister contains,

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ERRATA,
IN THE TEXT.

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A. CORNELIUS CELSUS

OF

MEDICINE.

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