The Influence Of Roman Medical Practices: Western Civilization
Roman Civilisation Controlled Assessment.
Roman medical practices.
Rome and Greece had very advanced civilisations that had good levels of sanitation and logical ideas about medicine and science. Because the Romans had good levels of sanitation they had better living conditions that meant they had better health; it took the western civilisations over 2000 years to associate human waste with illness. Their diet and concept of medicine also contributed to their good health as a civilisation.
Religion was very important to the Romans, as they believed that the gods controlled their destiny. Asclepius was the god of healing and medicine and his daughters are Hygeia the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation, Iaso the goddess of recuperation, Aceso the goddess of the healing process and Panacea the goddess of universal remedy1. Most physicians would have studied …show more content…
People can live without doctors (though not, of course, without medicine). It was not medicine which our ancestors hated, but doctors. They refused to pay fees to profiteers in order to save their lives. Of all the Greek arts, it is only medicine which we serious Romans have not yet practiced.” 9 Pliny The Elder. This implies that only the wealthier Romans could afford medical help from doctors
The highest people in society often had their own physician who would cure them of everything that ailed them. Then the middle class would have to pay for a physician but they could afford most of the treatments for a reasonable price. The lower and working class would only be able to afford the most basic treatments and would often make their own medicines. Many of the lower class died from plagues or colds because they could not afford the medicine where as some of the higher class died from over use of painkillers such as willow, poppy and henbane due to the inexperience of the
Roman medical practices.
Rome and Greece had very advanced civilisations that had good levels of sanitation and logical ideas about medicine and science. Because the Romans had good levels of sanitation they had better living conditions that meant they had better health; it took the western civilisations over 2000 years to associate human waste with illness. Their diet and concept of medicine also contributed to their good health as a civilisation.
Religion was very important to the Romans, as they believed that the gods controlled their destiny. Asclepius was the god of healing and medicine and his daughters are Hygeia the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation, Iaso the goddess of recuperation, Aceso the goddess of the healing process and Panacea the goddess of universal remedy1. Most physicians would have studied …show more content…
People can live without doctors (though not, of course, without medicine). It was not medicine which our ancestors hated, but doctors. They refused to pay fees to profiteers in order to save their lives. Of all the Greek arts, it is only medicine which we serious Romans have not yet practiced.” 9 Pliny The Elder. This implies that only the wealthier Romans could afford medical help from doctors
The highest people in society often had their own physician who would cure them of everything that ailed them. Then the middle class would have to pay for a physician but they could afford most of the treatments for a reasonable price. The lower and working class would only be able to afford the most basic treatments and would often make their own medicines. Many of the lower class died from plagues or colds because they could not afford the medicine where as some of the higher class died from over use of painkillers such as willow, poppy and henbane due to the inexperience of the