CELSE, De Re medica libri octo, 1549

Edition by Jean de Tournes.
De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine.
It is an extremely interesting history of medicine and surgery, including the symptoms and treatment of disease as well as descriptions of plastic surgery, goiter, tonsillectomy, treatment of fractures, and dental procedures. (Heirs of Hippocrates).

The edition is followed by the poem De medicina (composed of 1115 hexameter lines) with precepts borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides on the art of healing) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a Latin author assassinated under the orders of Caracalla in 212. At the end is the poem by Q. Rhemnius Palaemon on weights and measures.

The entire work was annotated at the time in the margins in fine 16th-century handwriting. On almost every page, passages are underlined and.