Roman and Greek medicine

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Created on: 08-05-13 19:06


	Roman and Greek medicene
	Similarities They both went to the temple of ascelpios They both believed in the four humours There were Greek doctors (Galen) working in the roman villages. They both were not allowed to do human disections except in the great library of Alexandria	Differences Due to the Roman war like nature they were more focused on quick cures on there soldiers rather than waiting to discover and debate about new remedies like the Greek philosophers did. They also did not do observation as much. The Romans were much more able to do external surgery. This was due to there war like nature they needed to often save lives by surgery. The Romans gathered there ideas by invading countries and taking there ideas were as the Greeks more traded ideas. Finally although the Romans used the theory of the four humors Galen did change it by making the person take the opposite to what the problem was.
	Overall comparison Overall I believe that yes the Greeks and Romans did have very similar ideas as they both did use the temple of ascelpios (The Romans took the idea from the Greeks when they needed help with a plague) and they both followed some form of the Four Humours theory, the Romans were much more focused on winning wars so did not spend much time observing new ideas and debating as they wanted quick and particle results

Roman and Greek medicene

Similarities

They both went to the temple of ascelpios
They both believed in the four humours
There were Greek doctors (Galen) working in the roman villages.
They both were not allowed to do human disections except in the great library of Alexandria

Differences

Due to the Roman war like nature they were more focused on quick cures on there soldiers rather than waiting to discover and debate about new remedies like the Greek philosophers did. They also did not do observation as much.
The Romans were much more able to do external surgery. This was due to there war like nature they needed to often save lives by surgery.
The Romans gathered there ideas by invading countries and taking there ideas were as the Greeks more traded ideas.
Finally although the Romans used the theory of the four humors Galen did change it by making the person take the opposite to what the problem was.

Overall comparison

Overall I believe that yes the Greeks and Romans did have very similar ideas as they both did use the temple of ascelpios (The Romans took the idea from the Greeks when they needed help with a plague) and they both followed some form of the Four Humours theory, the Romans were much more focused on winning wars so did not spend much time observing new ideas and debating as they wanted quick and particle results

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Miss E

Report Wed 19th February, 2014 @ 14:31

This is a really good example of an excellent revision resource that many students don't use enough, the compare and contrast tables. These tables provide perfect preparation for your longer exam answers and are well suited to this topic. Complete one for each set of consecutive time periods to be well prepared for the exam and help with general revision.

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Report Wed 8th March, 2017 @ 18:21

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Report Sun 4th June, 2017 @ 13:07

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