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During the autumn of 169 when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, a great plague, most likely one of the first appearances of smallpox (then referred to as the Antonine Plague) in the Mediterranean world, broke out, and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome. He was ordered to accompany Marcus and Verus to Germany as the court physician.
Copper engraving of a plague doctor of 17th-century Rome. A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague [1] during epidemics in 17th-century Europe. These physicians were hired by cities to treat infected patients regardless of income, especially the poor, who could not afford to pay.
The word theriac comes from the Greek term θηριακή (thēriakē), a feminine adjective signifying "pertaining to animals", [5] from θηρίον (thērion), "wild animal, beast". [6] The ancient bestiaries included information—often fanciful—about dangerous beasts and their bites.
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The word humor is a translation of Greek ... depending on the patient's condition and the doctor's practice. ... "A treatise concerning the plague and the pox ...
Niall Ó Glacáin [6] (sometimes anglicised as Nial O'Glacan; [2] [7] c. 1563 – 1653) was an Irish physician and plague doctor who worked to treat victims of bubonic plague outbreaks throughout continental Europe. He was a physician to Hugh Roe O'Donnell and King Louis XIII.
Medical services of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire were mainly imports from the civilization of ancient Greece, at first through Greek-influenced Etruscan society and Greek colonies placed directly in Italy, and then through Greeks enslaved during the Roman conquest of Greece, Greeks invited to Rome, or Greek knowledge imparted to Roman citizens visiting or being educated in ...
Asclepius (/ æ s ˈ k l iː p i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós [asklɛːpiós]; Latin: Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone.