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In this chapter some examples of the ancient medical knowledge are briefly exposed. The topics are: the medical assistance provided to the Roman legionnaires, the reconstructive plastic surgery, the early Penicillin and the beginning of the biological warfare.
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Rossi, C., Russo, F. (2017). Medicine and Health. In: Ancient Engineers' Inventions. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44476-5_17
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