ROMAN ( up to AD 476 )
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- ROMAN ( up to AD 476 )
- HOSPITALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
- purpose built for army - small wards - nor for general public
- from 200 AD, some small hospitals - to care for the elderly
- the gov built and maintained sewers, aqueducts and public baths
- TRAINING
- educated in hippocrates ad later in galen
- taught to observe and record symptoms
- galen conducted dissections
- CAUSES OF DISEASE
- theory of four humours: imbalanced humours = illness
- galen's theory of opposites
- miasma
- TREATMENTSAND CURES
- purging, praying to Salus, wearing charms etc
- natural remedies (poppy juice, honey, onion juice)
- treated by paterfamilias in wealthy families and physicians
- STATUS OF WOMEN IN MEDICINE
- main carers in poorer families
- some were doctors e.g. Antiochus
- KEY INDIVIDUALS
- Hippocrates
- GALEN
- HOSPITALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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