Roman medicine

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Medicine of ancient Rome; a civilization founded on the city of Rome that lasted from 753 BC to AD 476, and stretched at its peak in the 1st century AD from Britain to Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and much of North Africa. Pliny the Elder regarded the art of medicine as a Greek invention, writing in the 1st century AD that the Roman people had survived without medicine for more than six centuries before adopting the practices of Greek medicine. There is evidence that a medicine without doctors was in fact more characteristic of Roman life; most doctors practising in the Roman Empire were Greek. The Romans believed that health was dependent on diet and lifestyle, with some conditions – in particular, epidemic diseases – coming from the gods.

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