Celsus

A. Cornelius Celsus was the author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (14–37 CE), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work, there survives only the 8 books on medicine, De Medicina. Book 1 includes an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic,...