Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Roman Medicine
- Why did Romans use Greek ideas?
- First doctors in Rome where Greek doctors
- Took over Alexandria and library
- Greek doctors flocked to Rome (later)
- Galen
- Doctor to emperor
- Proved brain controlled body
- Developed theory of 4 humors (to theory of opposites)
- A showman- loved public displays
- Proved arteries carry blood
- Wrote 60 books
- Surgeon for gladiators
- Public health
- Public baths
- Communal public toilets
- Efficient drainage system
- Aqueducts