JN+Medicine&Disease+Dangerous+diseases

__What were some dangerous diseases in Ancient Rome?__

In ancient Rome the deadliest diseases were diseases that infected people which were malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, bronchitis and gastroenteritis(gastro or stomach flu). At the time they didn't know how to treat malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and gastroenteritis. But they knew how to cure bronchitis, if you went to the doctor with a cold they would bleed you which would make you get much sicker then you actually were. You would be better off if you went to a herbalist who would give you some willow bark (aspirin) which would make you comfy or he might give you some cough syrup which could be slippery elm tea or both. Willow bark gives you a bad stomach ache as a side effect. Bronchitis really needed antibiotics but they weren't around at the time so you were better off not going to the doctor otherwise you would be bled and you would get very sick. The doctors were really good a fixing broken bones because they knew what anatomy was(inside the human body) but the greatest threat was from infection. Small pox, measles and plague didn't have any medicine to stop the diseases but it would be more likely that they would live if they were in good nursing home, but would sometimes die.

Today we have cancer, AIDS, malaria, diarrhea, tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, tetanus, miningitis and syphilis whish are the top ten killers in developing countries