Object No: 2
De Re Medica, 1766
Author: Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Printed by A.Morris, Glasgow
Lender: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

This work consists of eight books on medicine believed to have been written circa 30 AD and was one of the first works to be rediscovered and printed during the Renaissance (Florence, 1478). This edition was the only medical book printed for, but not by, the Foulis brothers in Glasgow