The Influence Of Greek Medicine In Ancient Rome

Innovation is the process of improvement of already existing ideas etc. Innovation is replicated hundreds of times to adapt to today’s societies and problems find solutions to the problems in the world. Innovation supplies us and prepares us for the future. For example, ancient Greek medicines have innovated because of life-threating situations and it provides a solution. Medicines in general came about to help us overcome illnesses and diseases that makes us vulnerable to many life threating problems. The question is whether or not both Greek and Roman medicines share many medicine practices and who’s to tell whether or not the Romans were influenced by the Greeks.

Galen was the greatest physician of ancient Rome. He attempted practices that allowed us to learn about the human anatomy. Galen was born in an old Greek city in the year 130 A.D. Galen had first started as the surgeon and physician to the gladiators in Pergamum. This had exposed Galen which had helped him build knowledge in the fields of anatomy and surgery. Galen, had moved from

As he arrived in 219 BCE he was credited with introducing Greek medical practices to the Romans He specialized in healing battle wounds, which had gave him a reputation for solving skin problems. Despite the fact that Greek doctors criticism, Greeks were able to bring their knowledge of the 5-4th century BCE classic division of medical treatment into three divisions of diet, regimen and surgery. Also, the Greeks brought Alexandria where practitioners were astounding increasing their knowledge of the human body through dissections of condemned animals. Similarly as Galen’s work of dissecting animals. Galen's influence was so immense even after Western Europeans started making dissections in the thirteenth century, scholars often turned to findings into the Galenic model that otherwise might have thrown Galen's model into