They also stipulated that if a free person or an enslaved person is injured by another individual and becomes disabled, the injurer has to pay a certain amount of money or is punished by being impaired in a similar fashion. The Twelve Tables included a law that said disabled children should be put to death, usually by stoning. The Twelve Tables included laws that also accommodated disabled people in Rome. įor women, medical approaches to mental illnesses were considered separate and uniquely different than men's. Aulus Cornelius Celsus in his treatise On Medicine ( De Medicina), devoted a chapter to the subject of common eye infections, disease, problems, and their cures. Roman doctors had a variety of terms to describe different degrees of optical impairment. Wealth and class also determined the impact a disability had on a Roman citizen's daily life. Romans separated disabilities by their functional consequences, and some disabled people were considered more capable then others. As such, he held to the traditional triad of melancholy, mania, and phrenitis as the three categories of mental disorder. The later Roman physician Galen also discussed people with disabilities in his works on anatomy, claiming that both physical and mental impairments resulted from physical imbalances of the four humors. The treatise also states that the physical and mental fitness of a midwife or wet nurse also needed to be assessed by parents. Soranus of Ephesus (a Methodic doctor who worked in Rome) wrote in his extant treatise on gynaecology that only certain children were worth raising, listing the various tests one could perform on a child to identify disabilities which might render them not worthy in his opinion.
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