Opravy

The first doctors in Rome were from Grece: their arriving is one of the main manifestation of the hellenisme movement in Italy.

Pline, in his Natural History, tell us that the Roman lived six centuries without doctors, but not without medicine (if we take in count the stranges yields make by the old Caton.) During centuries, the Greeks were the only representants of the medicine in Italy.

And more later, we were trusting them to such an extent that the Roman who wanted to practice medecine were obliged to make them pass for Greeks and to speak greek.

[The same thing happened in France in XVIIe when the doctors had to speak latin.] The most of these doctors set up in Roma were slaves or freeds.

Many inscriptions mention slaves tied to big houses, and more especially to the imperial house.

Some of them were public slaves.

The first doctors in Roma were also general practitioners, but very quickly they adopted the oriental system: “ Each doctor treat just one disease.

Some of them are treating eyes, others the head, or teeths… “ Specialities, which are so varied, and sometimes amazing, are first etablished according to the disease.

It can also be according to the treatment: we know nutritionists, but also hydrotherapists who follow the method of Antonius Musa.

They’re practicing bath and cold topical as treatment, this is how Auguste have been cured from a serious disease.

Galien, mentions again the pharmaceticals who prescibe “ blend medicine “, and the botanists who cure thanks to plants.

They were called herbarii by the Roman.

The speciality can be etablished according to a doctrine: iatromathématiciens practice a medicine combined with the astronomy: Crinas de Marseille settle the nature and the hours of alimentation according to the stras movements.

Musicians (medici musici) observe musical rythms make out in pulse.

They conclude that these rythms, which vary with the age (for exemple), a therapy use of the music to cure certain diseases.