An engraved rectangular illustration features a central oval portrait of a bearded man in profile, representing Aulus Cornelius Celsus. The portrait is flanked by scholarly and medical objects: on the left, several bound books and an open manuscript; on the right, a mortar and pestle, a glass flask, and a potted plant. Below the illustration is a circular library stamp featuring a crown and a caduceus.

A. CORNELII CELSI

DE RE MEDICA

On Medical Matters

LIBER PRIMUS.

Book One.

ARGUMENT.

Preface original: "Præfatio" in which the origins, progress, improvements, various schools, and the division of this work are addressed. Chapter I. How it is fitting for healthy people to conduct themselves. Section I. What must be preserved by those who are in good health. Section II. What by the weak. Section III. What observations are required for new circumstances. Section IV. What changes of location. Section V. What is to be observed for those who are fasting, and what for those who have overindulged. Section VI. What the lifestyle should be for those who perform heavy labor. Section VII. What for those exhausted by labor. Section VIII. What for those traveling by sea. Section IX. What for those who have sat all day. Section X. What for those who are bathing. Section XI. What observations are required for various types of bodies, what things replenish the body, and what things attenuate it.