James Grieve (Scottish translator)

As translator of ‘Celsus,’ his work helped restore a path to classical medicine.

[1] Grieve was authorised to practice medicine in Russia in 1734, arriving two years ahead of his contemporary James Mounsey, future archiater to Empress Elizabeth.

This book details the overland portion of the 1733-1743 exploration into the vast eastern expanses of Asia initiated under Emperor Peter I and concluded during Empress Elizabeth's reign.

Cornelius Celsus of Medicine in eight books, translated, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by James Grieve, M.D.'

A third edition of this translation, was published in 1837, 'carefully revised with additional notes by George Futvoye', Samuel Sharp reviewed the text portions related to surgery while on staff at Guy's Hospital; and Stepan Krasheninnikov's 'History of Kamtschatka...,’ published at London 1763, Gloucester 1764, and afterwards at Saint Petersburg.