title: [Ethics, knowledge and psychiatry: in Aulus Cornelius Celsus' De Medicina].
abstract: Modern medicine has many roots on greco-roman practice of the medical art. The authors analyse the work De Medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus. They look upon the nature of the medical knowledge, the principles of ethics, causality and describe the mental disorders (phrenitis, depression, third insanity, seizure disorder and womb disease), with special detail to signs and symptoms, treatment and prognosis. An association with current medical knowledge is established.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Psiquiatria, Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Amadora.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Trancas
authors.forename: Nuno
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Borja Santos
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049690:History, Ancient; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*