Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Roman physician and writer · Doctors · Lived 25 BC to AD 50 · aged 74
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Something wrong?He wrote the only Roman medical textbook that survived intact - eight books covering diet, drugs, and surgery with a clarity that made him the standard for fifteen centuries. His name still marks skin diseases and inspired a Renaissance alchemist to call himself "beyond Celsus."
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Portret van Aulus Cornelius Celsus, RP-P-1908-2809
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A. Corn. Celsi De medicina libri octo (1766) (14783305503)
A. Cornelius Celsus, profile bust on a pedestal. Engraving. Wellcome V0018764
An imaginary portrait of Celsus, A. C. 1st C. Wellcome M0000760
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Aulo cornelio celso, de medicina, firenze 1427 (pluteo 73.7)_-_Veloso_Salgado.png?width=1200)
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (1906) - Veloso SalgadoAbout this person
Aulus Cornelius Celsus compiled an encyclopedia around the turn of the first century, covering agriculture, law, rhetoric, military arts, and medicine - only the medical section, De Medicina, made it through the fall of Rome. The eight books became a primary source on Roman medical knowledge: pharmacy, diet, surgery, the mechanics of treatment. He classified skin disorders precisely enough that conditions like myrmecia still carry his terminology, and dermatology terms like kerion celsi and area celsi preserve his eye for detail. Fifteen centuries later, a Swiss physician read him and took the name Paracelsus - literally "above Celsus" - as both homage and challenge.
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