MEDICINE THROUGH TIME - Ancient Rome 2
- Created by: StefAreYouDeaf
- Created on: 02-02-17 19:18
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- Ancient Roman Medicine 2
- public health
- public doctors and hospitals for soldiers
- aqueducts - clean water, public baths, public toilets
- miasma theory - Romans notices that bad smells, dirt and sewage made people more likely to be ill and so built army camps away from towns
- Disease and Infection
- believed in four humours and theory of opposites
- developed observation and diagnosis even further as Galen wrote over 100 medical texts
- Surgery and Anatomy
- still illegal to dissect everywhere except Alexandria
- Surgery last resort for Romans
- Galen dissected many animals to learn more about human anatomy because he thought that animals were identical to humans (wrong) however made more progress
- war meant that doctors had to come up with ways to cure wounded soldiers
- still illegal to dissect everywhere except Alexandria
- public health
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