Roman medicine

What is roman medicine?

• Roman medicine was the practice of medicine in ancient Rome

• The Romans were one of the most important parts of modern day medicine and public health

• The romans focused more on the prevention rather then the cure they persuaded the public to stay clean and to stay fit

The first doctors

• The first roman doctors were actually from Greece either captured as prisoners of war or emigrated to Rome because they could make a better living there

• The most important doctor was Galen

Galen• Galen lived in the 100s ad• He was a physician, surgeon and a philosopher• He contributed hugely to several different fields in

medicine such as Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology andNeurologyhe knew that our heart pumpsThe blood around our body heKnew that our nerves controlsOur movement and that we Think in our brain

Roman medication• The romans had many different medications • they would give dried hyenaSkin for a mad dog bite. We Now know that mad dog bitessometimes cause Rabies They used Opium as an effective pain killer. It comes from poppies which are still used today to Produce Morphine and Heroin

Ancient roman Treatments

• The romans prevented Malaria because they thought that people where catching it from a bad smell so they drained it by building a huge drain called the cloaca maxima that drained everything out of Rome but they didn’t know that they actually where preventing the mosquitos from breeding

Herbal remedies

honey was used a as an antibiotic on wounds soldiers would wrap there wounds in wool covered in honey Violets where usedon the eyes to cureHangoversGarlic was used for disinfectingThey would giveValerian to help sleep

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