Ancient Discoveries - Medicine

raysun · Feb 21, 2007

Today we often think of the Ancient world as an unsophisticated place filled with disease and poverty. But if we could step back 2000Yrs into the Roman Empire, we would be in for a great surprise. Hear was a world were science and medicine could almost rival our own (especially with today’s quacks ). Despite their bloody conflicts and cruel sports, the Romans were highly skilled in there own ability to heal the sick and injured. We would like to think that all our advances in Medicine and Technology have taken place in the last 200Yrs but we are wrong.
Incredible discoveries by archaeologists and Historians have shown the complex medical procedures within every day use in Roman Times. Skills that have layer lost for thousands of years and only recently had been reinvented. In A time without electricity or modern drugs, it is amazing to realise that doctors in the classical world carried out over 130 surgical procedures which are almost identical to those taught to medical students today….
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I saw this documentary 2 days ago verry intersting I did not know that ancient medicine was rather advanced and in some aspects ahead of its time...

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