A translation of the eight books ... / From the text of Leo. Targa, with a brief explanatory lexicon by G.F. Collier.

  • Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Date:
1830
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Credit: A translation of the eight books ... / From the text of Leo. Targa, with a brief explanatory lexicon by G.F. Collier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. We will not wait to make an invidious comparison between the merits of an- cieut and modern medical practitioners; although doubtless we have ample rea- son to exult in our superiority : oportet autem neque recentiores viros in his fraudare, quae vel repererunt vel recte secuti sunt; et tamen eaquae apud anti- quiores aliquos posita sunt, auctoribus suis reddere. The works of the an- cients assist us in tracing the origin aud progress of science ; every fragment lost, is a link broken in the chain which connects us with creation. b 2
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