Ancient Rome Flashcards
Factors + Influence
1F.) Large Cities/Mill Cramped 1I.) PH System
2F.) Gov/Comm Links 2I) Ideas + Treatments
3F.) Army 3I.) Med attention
4F.) War 4I.) Wounds
5F.) Money 5I.) Doctors
Greeks + Romans Similarities + Differences
Similarities: First Doctors- Greek (Captured) Doctors went to Rome (Money) Used: Hipp Med Books, 4 Humors, Gods, Clinical Observation Alexandria
Differences:
Miasma
Prevention rather than cure–> Public Health
Beliefs+ Treatments
Supernat:
Plague
Remedy of Veg
Built Acsclepion
Nat:
Not Interested as Greeks In Developing theories
Doctors: Exercise, Diet, Opposites
Expensive- Head of Family
Claudius Galen Creationism- Church 60 Med Books
Like Hipp believed disease caused by imbalance
Clinical Method
Disease Natural
Developments- Opposites- Counter balance humors Brain, not heart- speech Veins, Art - Blood Animals Anatomy Different
Mistakes
Holes in Septum- Blood R-L
Blood Consumed
Jaw- 2 bones
Public Health- Actions Taken By the government to improve lives of people
Smells, Unclean water, sewage, dirt= Ill
aqueducts + Fountains= Clean water
Baths, Toilets, Sewers- Remove waste
Hospitals- Soldiers
Surgery + Treatment
Gladiators+ War= External Developed Instruments cesarean section Internal- Risk Amputations