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    Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only...
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  • Celsus may refer to: Celsus (or Kelsos, c. 177 AD) an opponent of Christianity quoted by Origen Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD), an encyclopedist...
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    Review". In Vivo. 23 (4): 507–14. PMID 19567383. Rosenthal T (1961). "Aulus Cornelius Celsus - his contributions to Dermatology". Arch Dermatol. 84 (4): 613–618...
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  • Aulus Cornelius Celsus Aulus Cornelius Cossus Aulus Cremutius Cordus Aulus Didius Gallus Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento Aulus Gabinius Aulus Gellius...
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    stone in one position, and then a blunt instrument to crush it. Aulus Cornelius Celsus (1st century), and the Hindu surgeon Susruta produced early descriptions...
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    syringes were used in ancient times. During the 1st century AD Aulus Cornelius Celsus mentioned the use of them to treat medical complications in his...
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    entirety on the texts of their Greek predecessors. Notwithstanding, Aulus Cornelius Celsus left some accurate anatomical descriptions, some of which—for instance...
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    chapter 1. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. 8.24. Quoted in Knapp (2011). Aulus Cornelius Celsus. De Medicina. V, 26, 28d – via U. Chicago (penelope.uchicago.edu)...
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    and collecting everything they knew involving these procedures. Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a first-century Roman, described making an excision in the skin...
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    general. Gaius Cornelius Gallus, poet, and prefect of Egypt in 30 BC. Cornelius Severus, poet during the time of Augustus. Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a celebrated...
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  • the 4th century AD. The doctrines of this school are described by Aulus Cornelius Celsus in the introduction to his De Medicina. The Empiric school said...
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  • 000 rolls of silk cloth and about 20,000 pounds of silk floss. Aulus Cornelius Celsus, author of De Medicina (d. c. AD 50) Amyntas of Galatia, King of...
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    together. The name "vitiligo" was first used by the Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus in his classic medical text De Medicina. The term vitiligo is believed...
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    and Plistonicus. The doctrines of this school are described by Aulus Cornelius Celsus in the introduction to his De Medicina. The Dogmatic school held...
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  • Christian mission to Britain. Apostle Paul possibly visits Spain. Aulus Cornelius Celsus writes a dictionary (encyclopedia) on the arts and sciences. Dou...
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    121) Abgar V, Roman client king of Osroene (approximate date) Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Roman author of De Medicina (b. c. 25 BC) Gamaliel the Elder, Jewish...
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    De Medicina is a 1st-century medical treatise by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman encyclopedist and possibly (but not likely) a practicing physician. It...
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    degeneration) Visual snow Vitamin A deficiency; often via xerophthalmia Aulus Cornelius Celsus, writing ca. 30 AD, described night blindness and recommended an...
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    impacted cerumen. The treatment of excess ear wax was described by Aulus Cornelius Celsus in De Medicina in the 1st century: When a man is becoming dull of...
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    Aphorisms, noting its absence in eunuchs and premenopausal women. Aulus Cornelius Celsus (30 AD) described the linkage with alcohol, later onset in women...
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    stones has been described since at least the first century AD by Aulus Cornelius Celsus. Position of the urethra in males Transverse section of the penis...
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  • in 1959, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman who lived in the 1st century AD and was a great Latin classical...
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    bracket. Even Cleopatra wore a pair. Roman philosopher and physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus first recorded the treatment of teeth by finger pressure. Unfortunately...
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  • Generat. Historia, 1678 Gerolamo Cardano Opera, 10 vol. Leyden 1663 Aulus Cornelius Celsus De Medicina 8 Libri Basle 1592 Realdo Colombo De Re Anatomica Libri...
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    found in 29 AD in De Medicinae, the work of the Latin encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus. Archaeological evidence of eye surgery in the Roman era also exists...
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    to prolong life." 50 CE. About this time Roman physician-surgeon Aulus Cornelius Celsus died, leaving De Medicina, which described the "dilated tortuous...
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    by the Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus, who lived c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD, different types of warts were described. Celsus described Myrmecia, today...
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  • sufficiently stretched to cover the glans. The 1st-century writer Aulus Cornelius Celsus described two surgical techniques for foreskin restoration in his...
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    - stone-cutting). Aulus Cornelius Celsus wrote that Lithotomos developed instruments to break up and extract bladder stones. Celsus gave the first description...
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    fabric dye in such Levantine cities as Sidon and Tyre in Lebanon. Aulus Cornelius Celsus prescribes saffron in medicines for wounds, cough, colic, and scabies...
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