roman food & medicine
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Slide 1. Roman Food & Medicine. By: Yuon Yeung, Samuel Drewes, Jia Lin Sun and Samiksha Choudhury. Contents on food. Slide 2. Slide 3: Intro on food Slide 4: What did REALLY rich Romans eat? Slide 5: What did poor Romans eat? Slide 6 : Contents on Medicine. Intro on food. Slide 3. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Contents on food
Slide 3: Intro on food
Slide 4: What did REALLY rich Romans eat?
Slide 5: What did poor Romans eat?
Slide 6 : Contents on Medicine
Slide 2
Intro on food
The type of food Romans ate depended how wealthy they were and their position in the big roman empire.
Slide 3
What did REALLY rich Romans eat?
• They ate: A chicken in a duck in a goose in a pig in cow and cooking everything together!
• Slushies
• Cinnamon and nutmeg.
And much more!
Slide 4
What did poor Romans eat?
Average Romans ate: mainly ate corn (grain), oil and wine. Bread was the next most eaten thing in
Ancient Rome. A variety of pastries were baked
commercially and at home, often added with honey.
Fruits and nuts were favored snacks to the consumer.
Slide 5
Contents on Medicine
Slide 7 : Appearance of Surgeons
Slide 8 : Ancient Roman surgical tools
Slide 9 : Ancient Roman surgical tools (continued)
Slide 6
Appearance of Surgeons:
• Fingernails no longer nor shorter than the ends of the fingertips. It was believed that the better the person looked, the better they were at their job
Slide 7
Ancient Roman surgical tools
These instruments were used for levering fractured bones into position and may have been used for levering out teeth.
The cautery was used to an almost incredible degree in ancient times. Surgeons used this tool in many ways. The cautery was working for just about all possible purpose: as a ‘counter-irritant’, as a bloodless knife, as a means of
destroying tumors, etc.
Slide 8
Bone Levers
Bone Levers
Ancient Roman surgical tools (continued)
Hooks, blunt and sharp, served the same possible purposes we use them for: the blunt for dissecting and raising blood-vessels, the sharp for seizing and raising small pieces of tissue for excision and for fixing and retracting the edges of wounds.
The spathomele. It consists of a long shaft with an olivary point at one end and a spatula at the other. The olive end was used for stirring medicaments, the spatula for spreading them on the affected part.
Slide 9
Obstetrical Hooks/Sharp Hooks
Spatula Probes