Ca. 25BCE

Birth of Aulus Cornelius Celsus in Galia Narbonensis, a Roman province in southern France. First of encyclopedists and first major author writing in Latin. De Medicina is oldest recognized medical treatise after the Corpus Hippocraticum. Argued that surgery was an integral part of medicine, listing all known surgical conditions and operative techniques specific to each body region (Rutkow, ch 3).