Galen gives recipes for lozenges containing ... urine seems to have been used as toothpaste. Ancient Roman medicine was a combination of folk medicine and inherited knowledge from their neighbors.

After the decline and breakdown of the Roman Empire in the ... was considered an expert in medicine (with the exception of surgery, which he did not like much). Galen's interest in physiology ...

Ancient Rome was a flourishing civilization that started around 800 BC and existed for approximately 1200 years. It started off in Rome, and grew into one of the largest and most powerful empires ...

Hundreds of medical instruments from the ancient Roman era discovered ... in the National Library of Medicine about the ancient "medical" site in Turkey stated that Galen only mentioned Allianoi ...