Author of De Medicina

Aulus Cornelius Celsus

Author of De Medicina, a Latin work on medicine written in the first century CE according to a review. Book V, in the Loeb translation, describes carcinoma and its stages and uses the Latin word cancer for a spreading ulcer. Details of his life were not established in the sources read.

Milestones

1st century CE Celsus: carcinoma, its stages and a warning against treating it

Sources

Celsus AC. De Medicina, Book V (Latin text with English translation). Loeb Classical Library, vol. II. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press; 1935. Sections V.26.31 and V.28.2. Text as reproduced at LacusCurtius (University of Chicago), which states that the text is in the public domain.
Source
El Nachef L, Bouchet A, Bourguignon M, Foray N. When DNA Mutations Interplay with Cellular Proliferation: A Narrative History of Theories of Carcinogenesis. Cancers (Basel). 2024;16(11).
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