Reflections on Roman Medicine
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This article tries to answer the question about the traits that characterize what a specialized historiography usually calls “Roman medicine”. Taking into account excerpts of the De Medicina (On Medicine), the only surviving text of the Latin encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus (first century AD.), it is analyzed some Greek medical writers prior to Celsus in order to present the similarities and peculiarities of the Latin authors who wrote about medicine. The conclusion is that if there was a true “Roman medicine”, it should be considered as a product of the Latin countryside, with its recipes and traditional therapies. Such medicine, although not equaling the progress made by Greek medicine, did not, however, restrained itself from presenting a rich reflection on the practice of medicine and the role of physicians.
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