1. Roman medicine

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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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