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The document summarizes Roman medicine. It discusses how the Romans were originally skeptical of professional physicians and relied more on folklore and magic. However, they began accepting Greek physicians like Asclepiades, who advocated diets, exercise and simple remedies. Later physicians like Pliny the Elder, Dioscorides, and Celsus made important contributions by documenting medically useful plants and describing surgical practices and signs of inflammation in first-century Rome.
- Author
- Monsour Salazar
- Language
- EN