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Long ago, along the heartland of Britian, the native Celts lived in shitholes.
Ngl it was kind of based, almost Talkienesc and peaceful.
Prob nice people tbh, would accept Christianity fairly easy.
Anyhow.
THEN THE ROMANS CAME!
What they did is bring CIVILIZATION to Britain.
No more huts. But beautiful Mediteranean archecteture.
Beautiful BATH HOUSES. ENTERTAINMENT. TRADE. RICHES. CITIZENSHIP. PROTECTION. TECHNOLOGY. AQUADUCTS.
I timestamped it to ordinary life.
Barely just touched upon was Roman medical service. The Romans had a professional army, and with that, the world's first college of physicians. The legions travelled with a medical Corps, just like today. They were very good at treating battle trauma and understood pain relief. Opium was well known in the form of various oral reatments. They also prevented a lot of infection by the use of honey mixed with wine, which they knew to be anti bacterial - even though they didn't know what bacteria was. They knew to boil all dressings and instruments before, during and after surgeries. And they knew not to suture a wound till it healed from the inside out first.Some think that a soldier had a better chance of retirement than a private citizen due to regular medical care in the army.It was only after the discovery of anti-biotics that trauma care got much better then in Roman times. The American Civil War saw absolutely hidesous medical procedures and mass infection, with death soon following. Also, cholera was common after battles but not in Roman times because the dead were cremated. Cholers ourbreaks did occur in Rome and other large cities in those days - up until just thjelast century. But, the Romans had ordinances regarding the siting of their camps and towns away from swamps with insects, and did not allow human toilets anywhere upstream of those sites. As time went on and the sites grew, it's likely those ordinances became moot.
Ngl it was kind of based, almost Talkienesc and peaceful.
Prob nice people tbh, would accept Christianity fairly easy.
Anyhow.
THEN THE ROMANS CAME!
What they did is bring CIVILIZATION to Britain.
No more huts. But beautiful Mediteranean archecteture.
Beautiful BATH HOUSES. ENTERTAINMENT. TRADE. RICHES. CITIZENSHIP. PROTECTION. TECHNOLOGY. AQUADUCTS.
I timestamped it to ordinary life.
Barely just touched upon was Roman medical service. The Romans had a professional army, and with that, the world's first college of physicians. The legions travelled with a medical Corps, just like today. They were very good at treating battle trauma and understood pain relief. Opium was well known in the form of various oral reatments. They also prevented a lot of infection by the use of honey mixed with wine, which they knew to be anti bacterial - even though they didn't know what bacteria was. They knew to boil all dressings and instruments before, during and after surgeries. And they knew not to suture a wound till it healed from the inside out first.Some think that a soldier had a better chance of retirement than a private citizen due to regular medical care in the army.It was only after the discovery of anti-biotics that trauma care got much better then in Roman times. The American Civil War saw absolutely hidesous medical procedures and mass infection, with death soon following. Also, cholera was common after battles but not in Roman times because the dead were cremated. Cholers ourbreaks did occur in Rome and other large cities in those days - up until just thjelast century. But, the Romans had ordinances regarding the siting of their camps and towns away from swamps with insects, and did not allow human toilets anywhere upstream of those sites. As time went on and the sites grew, it's likely those ordinances became moot.
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