ROMAN MEDICINE
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- Created on: 07-04-13 16:35
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- ROMAN MEDICINE
- Treatments
- ROMAN MEDICINE
- Votives
- Ointments from the market
- Herbal remedies
- Treatments
- Votives
- Ointments from the market
- Treatments
- Doctors
- Beliefs
- Most people had supernatural beliefs towards illness
- Beliefs
- Beliefs
- Surgery
- Public Health
- Galen
- He was first a surgeon at gladiator school
- Most of his ideas were correct but some were wrong as he applied his knowledge about animals to humans
- Baths
- Public Health
- Baths were very popular and in them were fitness centres and different baths. This kept people both clean and entertained
- Public Health
- Mostly natural, some worked
- Herbal remedies
- Herbal remedies
- Real doctors were well trained but others were con men trying to make money
- Doctors
- Doctors
- They were clay or metal models of parts of the body. You could buy a votive for whichever part of your body that hurt, and take it to a temple to pray for a cure
- Salesmen sold treatments that often did not work
- They made advances in surgery due to the fact that they had so many injured soldiers so their skills were constantly being tested
- Surgery
- Surgery
- He followed the ideas of Hippocrates and discovered new information about anatomy through dissection
- Galen
- He was first a surgeon at gladiator school
- Most of his ideas were correct but some were wrong as he applied his knowledge about animals to humans
- Galen
- They relied mostly on preventive medicine
- They drained swamps, built aqueducts, built toilets and sewage systems
- Baths were very popular and in them were fitness centres and different baths. This kept people both clean and entertained
- Although, many poor Romans lived in poor areas where disease spread easily
- Baths
- Baths
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