(¤ 30 BC - 50 AD) Encyclopedist, working in Rome. Systematic description of skin diseases such as psoriasis vulgaris, boils, carbuncles, ignis sacer (= erysipelas), favus, kerion celsi (tinea capitis), sykosis (folliculitis barbae), acrochordon (stem wart), alphos (vitiligo), scabies, impetigo. Celsus also recommends the unpurified wool fat as a therapeutic agent. Celsus carried out the extirpation of varicose veins for the first time.
Celsus, aulus cornelius
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Noppeney T(2010) History of varicose vein treatment. In: T Noppeney, H Nüllen Diagnosis and Theapy of Varicosis. Springer Medicine Publishing House Heidelberg S 7