Medicine+&+Disease

Medicine & Disease Makena Farrer and Phil Bolz

Ancient Rome's Disease and medicine differ from modern day but also have many similarities.Rome was known to have suffered from plague. There were infectious diseases like Malaria. Malaria wad discovered on one of the oldest scribes written in cuneiform. On this there were pictured as a double-winged mosquito like insect.

Ancient Romans were extremely advanced in their medicine. They had practices such as Urology(The study of the male reproductive organs) and Ophthalmology(The study of the eyes). Romans didn't focus as much on the cure to diseases as they did the prevention. They cared a lot about personal hygiene and even the government encouraged it, by building public baths. They used tools such as Forceps, Scalpels, and Catheters. All tools had multiple uses, and were cleaned by boiling them in water. They were cleaned using ace tum (The acid vinegar contains). During surgeries, patients were given painkillers such as Opium (to educe sleep).


 * = Similarities ||= Differences ||
 * = Cleanliness ||= Prevention ||
 * = Tools ||= How tools were cleaned ||
 * = Still have malaria ||= Opium vs anesthesia ||

__** Similarities **__- In roman times people did care about cleanliness but not like we do now. They just let the tools soak in boiling water and some kind of acid, we sterilize our tools with antiseptic and or alcohol. We still use some of the same tools but tools now a days are more advanced we virtually have the same tools but over time we have improved them. We still have some of the same diseases, like Malaria which is a mosquito- borne infectious disease of humans. This is when a multiplication of mosquito parasites in red blood cells. Normally with an end result of coma or death.


 * __Differences__- ** In ancient Roman times they focused more on preventing the disease more then the cure. Now a days we look at both, we give someone medicine to prevent a long term side effect while we work on a cure. I think that we lean more toward a cure in modern time. The tools that were used we only boiled in water and ace tum but now we have them cleaned with alcohol. Now when we perform surgeries we use anesthesia which puts the patients asleep, but back then they used opium (pain killer) to prevent the pain they would feel after.

__**FUN FACT**__ They did perform brain surgeries

Studies showed from July to October more people got sick. Roman authors refer to these months as ‘sickly’ and urge their Romans to flee the city for the healthy place to live.