Note 372 — WAS THE ROMAN ARMY PROVIDED WITH MEDICAL OFFICERS?
Reading edition
Galeni Omnia Opera, Ed. Kühn, vol. xiii. p. 604. Celsus speaks of the possibility of studying human internal anatomy by looking at the wounds of soldiers, etc. “Interdum enim gladiatorem in arena, vel militem in acie, vel viatorem a latronibus exceptum sic vulnerari, ut ejus interior aliqua pars aperiatur.”—De Medicina, lib. i. p. 8.