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Was Roman medicine the same as Greek Medicine?  

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Was Roman medicine the same as Greek Medicine? Roman and Greek medicine was similar in some aspects and different in others. Although Roman medicine is most definitely not the exact same as Greek medicine there are some similarities and some people may think that the Romans 'copied' the Greeks. One of the similarities between these two periods is that they both have strong beliefs in Gods. In Greek times they had a great belief in Asclepious, the Geek God of healing. Panacea and Hygeia, his daughters, helped him. The Greeks believed that if they went to sleep in the Asclepion at night, the god and his daughters would come and heal them. The Greeks also had other gods but apart from Aslepious, such as a god of wisdom, god of wine and a god of laughing. They believed that gods caused disasters like earthquakes and thunderstorms and if good things happened,...

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