2 Quotes & Sayings By Celsus

Celsus was a Greek writer of the 1st century AD. He is most famous for his medical encyclopedia, A Treatise on Medicine, in ten books. This work covered medical theory, clinical practice, and diet therapy. Celsus's treatise was an early statement of the germ theory of disease and one of the first books written by a physician to address the subject of hygiene and cleanliness.