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Episode CXXXIV - Roman Health and Medicine

Emperors of Rome

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Is There an Interaction Between Secular and Religious Medicine?

There's many, many interactions between what we might think of as secular medicine and religious medicine. In antiquity, it's very difficult to separate the two really. The imperial physician certainly believed in the gods the healing deities. He invoked esclepius himself when he wanted to get out of going on campaign with marcus aurelius to gammania. So that was a rather convenient dream, perhaps.

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