Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to I Mazzini.
The article presents the principal topoi of Celsus' De medicina in which andrological problems are discussed. Comparing them with other testimonies of ancient medicine, the author clarifies their peculiarity and explains them in the summary of the cultural and socio-economical conditions of ancient Rome.
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The medical language of the Western world is a cultured language that has been continually growing for many centuries. The aim of the article is to show how a historical acquaintance with this language enables us to obtain not only the individual primary technical message from a written text of the past, but the secondary one too, the metamessage, as, for example, information concerning the cultural level of the medical class, its social and legal status, the sanitary conditions, medical theories, etc.
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