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  2. Disease in Imperial Rome - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Empire has garnered itself a mostly positive reputation for the complicated sewer systems that ran underneath many of its cities. Roman engineering brought water to the city from the Alban Hills using an aqueduct system implemented in 312 BC [1] Although primitive forms of sewage systems have existed in Rome since pre-imperial times, these were mostly primitive drains that led to the ...

  3. Plague of Cyprian - Wikipedia

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    The Plague of Cyprian was a pandemic which afflicted the Roman Empire from about AD 249 to 262, [1] [2] or 251/2 to 270. [3] The plague is thought to have caused widespread manpower shortages for food production and the Roman army, severely weakening the empire during the Crisis of the Third Century.

  4. Antonine Plague - Wikipedia

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    The connectivity by land and sea between the vast territories of the Roman Empire made the transfer of infectious diseases from one region to another easier and more rapid than it was in smaller, more geographically confined societies. Epidemics of infectious diseases in the empire were common, with nine recorded between 43 BC and 148 AD.

  5. Sanitation in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Roman citizens came to expect high standards of hygiene, and the army was also well provided with latrines and bath houses, or thermae. Aqueducts were used everywhere in the empire not just to supply drinking water for private houses but to supply other needs such as irrigation , public fountains , and thermae .

  6. Medicine in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Empire was a complex and vigorous combination of Greek and Roman cultural elements [1] forged through centuries of contact. Later Latin authors, notably Cato and Pliny , believed in a specific traditional Roman type of healing based on herbs, chants, prayers and charms easily available to and by the head of household.

  7. Mental illness in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    The Romans noticed that diseases and conditions, such as epilepsy, could be inherited. Roman doctors also distinguished between people with mental illness, and those at risk of mental illness. Ancient doctors categorized some people into a "half-mad" category, which meant symptoms only emerged while drunk or stressed. [55]

  8. Roman Plague of 590 - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Plague of 590 was an epidemic of plague that affected the city of Rome in the year 590. [1] Probably bubonic plague , it was part of the first plague pandemic that followed the great plague of Justinian , which began in the 540s and may have killed more than 100 million Europeans [ 2 ] before spreading to other parts of the world [ 3 ...

  9. Medical community of ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    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 ...