Celsus

Celsus, AULUS CORNELIUS, a Latin physician and writer, who probably flourished about 50 A.D., and wrote not only on medicine, but also on rhetoric, history, philosophy, the art of war, and agriculture. His style is succinct and clear, but full of Grecisms. The only great work of his which survives is the De Medicinâ. The portions relating to surgery are exceedingly valuable, as giving an account of the opinions and observations of the Alexandrian school of medicine. Indeed, to Celsus, next to Hippocrates and Galen, we mainly owe our knowledge of the medicine of antiquity. Celsus's works were translated into English in 1756. Next to the first edition (1478) the most important are those of Targa (1769) and Daremberg (1859). See Dr J. Patrick, Apology of Origen in Reply to Celsus (1892).