Roman Food & Medicine

By: Yuon Yeung, Samuel Drewes, Jia Lin Sun and Samiksha

Choudhury

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Contents on food

Slide 3: Intro on food

Slide 4: What did REALLY rich Romans eat?

Slide 5: What did poor Romans eat?

Slide 6 : Contents on Medicine

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Intro on food

The type of food Romans ate depended how wealthy they were and their position in the big roman empire.

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What did REALLY rich Romans eat?

• They ate: A chicken in a duck in a goose in a pig in cow and cooking everything together!

• Slushies

• Cinnamon and nutmeg.

And much more!

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What did poor Romans eat?

Average Romans ate: mainly ate corn (grain), oil and wine.   Bread was the next most eaten thing in

Ancient Rome. A variety of pastries were baked

commercially and at home, often added with honey. 

Fruits and nuts were favored snacks to the consumer.

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Contents on Medicine

Slide 7 : Appearance of Surgeons

Slide 8 : Ancient Roman surgical tools

Slide 9 : Ancient Roman surgical tools (continued)

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Appearance of Surgeons:

• Fingernails no longer nor shorter than the ends of the fingertips. It was believed that the better the person looked, the better they were at their job

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Ancient Roman surgical tools

These instruments were used for levering fractured bones into position and may have been used for levering out teeth.

The cautery was used to an almost incredible degree in ancient times. Surgeons used this tool in many ways. The cautery was working for just about all possible purpose: as a ‘counter-irritant’, as a bloodless knife, as a means of

destroying tumors, etc.

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Bone Levers

Bone Levers

Ancient Roman surgical tools (continued)

Hooks, blunt and sharp, served the same possible purposes we use them for: the blunt for dissecting and raising blood-vessels, the sharp for seizing and raising small pieces of tissue for excision and for fixing and retracting the edges of wounds.

The spathomele. It consists of a long shaft with an olivary point at one end and a spatula at the other. The olive end was used for stirring medicaments, the spatula for spreading them on the affected part.

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Obstetrical Hooks/Sharp Hooks

Spatula Probes

Conclusion

The Romans made a huge impact on our modern world.

Without them we may not know as much as we do now.

This is OFFICIALLY the last slide Ringrazio e saluto

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