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Roman Empire
Romans took Greek medicine with them wherever they went. One of the key components of Roman success was their healthcare which could treat and heal their soldiers and helped them recover much better than any other armies at that time.
One of the amazing contributions of the Roman empire to the modern world is its documentation. Romans were data fanatics. First state civilian Census and data keeping was started by the Romans in the 6th Century BCE, even before Romans were an empire or a republic, and in the absolute infancy stage of Roman city-state. Roman administration was littered with Eutroscan people, who were of Greek Origin settled in parts of Italy. Roman culture is an extension of the later vanished Eutroscan people.
Etruscan civilization brought its administrative documentation and adapted Latin. European language, culture, and people got disseminated with the Latin people.
Roman+German
When Julius Ceasor the Roman empire set out his conquest towards the east and defeated Galls(French people), he set foot to conquer the germanic people. Germans fought in the Roman army for almost 250 years and were the most invincible wing of the Roman army. Later, Germans had a love-hate relationship with the Romans. Germans and Romans fought many wars together, and also fought many wars against each other. That is when Germans got influenced by Greek medicine. Germans lagged behind the intellect of the Greeks had, but were Pagans, who were close to Nature.
Foundation of Neo-Germanic Medicines
Germans took the Upanishad’s Ayurveda, combined with Egyptian healing, and Kushaites composition, to look for Homeostasis, as paganism revolves around the balance between humans and ecology. This is precisely why German women became healers. Much later from the 16th to 18th century AD, the Church persecuted almost 50,000 Germans, a majority of whom were healers on the charges of Witchcraft, which was in reality a continuation of Germanic Paganism, Egyptian healing, Vedic homeostasis, and Greek’s Mind-body synchrony.
Today, Germany is the hub of alternative medicines like Homeopathy and German new medicine based on the same principles of Greek medicine and Roman documentation.
Galen’s Lifestyle Medicine
When the Roman empire was at the peak of prosperity, and around 160 AD to 180 AD, Clinician Galen from Greek, whom the then the Roman empire Marcus Aurelius had hired to solve the problem of Epidemic and metabolic disorders spread across the Roman cities introduced lifestyle intervention. The introduction of metabolism and lifestyle intervention introduced by Galen is used to date for chronic disease management.
Destruction of the Medicine Era
After Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire under Constantine in 313 AD, slowly all the ancient knowledge was destroyed, and Europe went into a dark age. After the collapse of the Roman empire in the subsequent centuries, in the northern Italian town of Bologna in 1088 AD, the first modern university was created. Bologna University is the world’s oldest university, which lasted over a millennium. It is here, the medicine started getting revived. Because Bologna was essentially a law college, medicine started the way 2800 years back Babylonians had started medicine, by codifying health.