450+BC+-+300+AD+-+Greeks+and+Romans


 * 450 BC - 300 AD - Greeks and Romans**

Facts:

 * Instead of taking care of personal cleanliness out in public, specific buildings were made to carry out these duties in
 * A sewage system was created to take care of bodily waste
 * Aquaducts were created to bring running water into every house
 * Pipes the aquaducts were made of ended up causing lead poisoning from the water
 * Aquaducts were also blamed for the fall of the Roman Empire
 * In Rome, the family doctor had absolute power over the family
 * Being a doctor was only some thing a foreigner would do and was looked down upon.
 * Many medics became slaves so they could go to Rome to practice medicine.
 * Asclepìades,Temison, Dioscorides Pedanius (First Century A.D.),Soranus of Ephesus (I/II century), Aulus Cornelius Celsus (14 B.C.-37 A.D.), Plato, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, and Leonardo Da Vinci were many famous doctors in Ancient Greece and Rome.
 * Although the medicine used was basically useless, medicine in general was based upon what each individual believed.
 * Doctors from that era discoverd the function of many organ systems in the body.
 * The first real hospitals were built in Roman times.
 * Early Greek medicine relied on magic and spells for healing.

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 * Major medical advances:**
 * Aquaducts
 * Sewage systems
 * Drained marshes to get rid of mosquitos
 * Impact of medicine on society:**
 * Discovered a lot about the anatomy of the body
 * Identified the brain as the control center, instead of the heart
 * Created medical schools for learning
 * Developed methods to prevent diseases
 * Role medicine played on society:**
 * Became very advanced for the time
 * Took the role of religion away from science
 * Became a lot more sanitary, so less people started dying