The Roman doctor will see you now: Anthea Gerrie explores a remarkable excavation, a Roman surgeon's house in Rimini.(FRONTLINE)

From: History Today | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

It was the Roman equivalent of the Cornwall home of television's Doc Martin, with its in-house consulting rooms and lovely sea view. For centuries the 2,000-year-old home and surgery, complete with all the tools of the doctor's trade, lay undiscovered beneath a park, but now the most important relics ever unearthed of the ancient medical world have been unveiled in Rimini on Italy's Adriatic coast

The site of the Domus del Chirurgo--surgeon's house--has just opened to the public following eighteen years of laborious excavations. And while it is the undoubted star of the ...

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