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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 and
Neurology
he knew that our heart pumps
The blood around our body he
Knew that our nerves controls
Our movement and that we
Think in our brain
Roman medication
• The romans had many different medications
• they would give dried hyena
Skin for a mad dog bite. We
Now know that mad dog bites
sometimes 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 used
on the eyes to cure
Hangovers
Garlic was used for
disinfecting
They would give
Valerian to help sleep
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