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History V - Ong - History of Medicine - Rome
Terms and Proponets in the Roman History of Medicine
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01/15/2010

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Dii Consentes
Definition
"Twelve Major Gods"
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Asclepius
Definition
Roman Father of Medicine
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Sons and Daughters of Asclepius, symbolizing the different branches of medicine
Definition
  1. HYGEIA - Health
  2. IASO - Medicine
  3. ACESO - Healing
  4. AGLAEA - Healthy Glow
  5. PANACEA - Universal Remedy
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Aesculapius
Definition
Roman God of Medicine
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chirurgii
Definition
Term for "surgeon"
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Pliny the Elder
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Wrote "Historia Naturalis", notes on medicinal herbs and plants
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Krateuas
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Wrote about medicinal herbs essential to Roman Medicine
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Claudius Galen
Definition
Most famous doctor in Rome who wrote around 600 treatises about Philosophy and Medicine
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Onbasius
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Compiled a 70 volume-Medical Encylopedia
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Soranus
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Proponent who wrote "On Acute and Chronic Diseases" and about Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Cato the Elder
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Proponent of early Roman Medicine, with expertise on Agriculture
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Arcagathus or Archagathus
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First doctor who came to Rome
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Asclepiades of Bithynia
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Father of Molecular Medicine
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Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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Proponent who coined "diabetes; first discoved difference between spinal and cerebral paralysis
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Cornelius Celsus
Definition
Proponent who wrote "De Medisina"
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Pedanius Dioscorides
Definition
Proponent who wrote "Materia Medica" (Regarding Medical Matters)
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