医学上的“西塞罗”——塞尔萨斯

The “Cicero” of medicine: Aulus Cornelius Celsus

塞尔萨斯(Aulus Cornelius Celsus,BC 25-AD 50),古罗马拉丁文作家,百科全书的编纂者,被称为医学上的"西塞罗"。塞尔萨斯用漂亮的拉丁文传播了许多希腊科学知识,一本《论医学》通俗精炼,实用性极强,开启近代病理学的先河,明确区分了食物治疗、药物治疗和外科手术等三类医疗方式,认为调节饮食是权威性的治疗方法,提出了病因预防的观点,自成体系地影响了西方医学的发展。他还探讨了医学的经验主义和理性主义,着眼于个体化治疗以达到最好的治疗效果。

Aulus Cornelius Celsus(BC 25-AD 50),an ancient Roman Latin writer and compiler of encyclopedias,has been known as the"Cicero of medicine".Celsus spread a lot of Greek scientific knowledge in beautiful Latin,published a treatise on medicine in a popular and concise way.Celsus published a book called De Medicina,which opened the history of modern pathology.This book had strong practicability and made a clear distinction between food therapy,drug therapy and surgery,which had a systematic influence on the development of western medicine.Celsus put forword primary prevention and held the view of that diet was the definitive treatment.He also discussed the empiricism and rationalism of medicine,which focused on individualized treatment to achieve the best results.