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Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC - c. 50 AD)

Roman encyclopaedist, chiefly known for his extant medical work Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulus_Cornelius_Celsus Authority - ancient
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Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) Some general Quære's concerning Land and Fresh-water Snails. 1. Whether there are other Shell-snails at land, than TurbibinateTurbinate? 2. Whether this kind of Insect are truly Androgyna, and equally participate of both Sexes, as Mr. Ray first observed; and whether both of them two, which shall be found in the act of Venery, do accordingly Spawn, or lay those perfectly round and clear Eggs, so frequently to be met with the surface of the Earth and in the Water too; and the circumstances of those Eggs hatching? 3. Whether the Way of fatting Snails, in use amongst the Romans, that is, to make little paved places incircled with water, be not also very expedient in order to the true noting the manner of their Generation? 4. What light the Anatomy of this kind of Insect may give to the rest? 5. Whether the black spots, observable in the horns of some Snails, are Eyes, as some Authors affirm, and not rather parts equivalent to the antennæ of other Insects; as the flat and exceeding thin shape, also the branched horns, in other Species of Snails seem to confirm? 6. Whether the coccinea Sanies, which some of our Water- snails freely and plentifully yield, be not a Saliva rather than (98) am extravasated blood: The like may be thought of the Juyce of the Purple-fish, now out of use, since the great plenty of Cochineil? 7. In what sort of Snails are the Stones, mentioned by the Antients, to be found? And whether they are not to be found (in such as yield them) at certain times of the year? And whethertheryther they are a cure for a Quartan; or what other real vertues they have? 8. What medicinal vertues Snails may have, as restorative to Hectic persons; and what credit the Romans may deserve,counting them, especially the necks of them, highly venereal; Celsus also particularly commending them to be boni succi, and stomacho aptas. 9. Also inquire concerning the Mechanical uses of the Saliva of these animals, as in dying, whitening of wax, hair, &c. Note, that the Figures are numbered and explain'd by the Tables. The Figures of the naked Snails are omitted in this Specimen,being not material to that part of the design, which is, (when the other parts of these Tables are finish't,) to give the Reader an exact view of Animal-shells, as well as of Fossils figured like Shells, whereby he will be best able to Judge, what to think of their Original.