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What Factors Were Most Significant to Roman Health and Medical Practice?
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What Factors Were Most Significant to Roman Health and Medical Practice? Rome started being built in 753 BC. Rome first conquered the rest of Italy, and most of the Mediterranean world. By 275 BC it had conquered the Greek cities in Italy. Rome had a very powerful army which needed to be kept healthy, so the Romans started to look into the idea of medical practices. The Romans were not the first civilisation to practice medicine. There is evidence of medical knowledge from the Ancient Egyptians as early as 3000 BC. The most important early Egyptian medical books were the 'Books of Thoth'. They were kept in the temple of Thoth by priests. Thoth was the god of writing and wisdom. None of the books survived, although a medical book called the 'Papyrus Ebers', which dates back to about 1500 BC, was probably based on them. The Greeks had many ideas about...
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