The Roman Empire were very smart and advanced for their time period. They produced countless inventions which changed the world. The Romans were the first to know that bad hygiene caused bad health, and they invested in eradicating dirty water, human waste and marshland. They invented


• False teeth
  
• Toothpaste (made of salt, vinegar, honey and grounded up glass(which can damage the stomach's lining))
  
• Public Baths
  
• Electrotherapy (from electric rays or torpedo fish in seawater tanks)
  
• Cupping (placing a cup on the back to expand the skin and make it rise)
  
• Fine forceps (for taking out splinters)
  
• Probes (for exploring wounds and tissues)
  
• Traction hooks (for holding vessels and tissues)
  
• Fine boned tooth saws for amputations
  
• Straight roads
  
• The banning of burying the dead in walls
  
• The creation of sewers
  
• Officials checking if food is fresh to be sold

The public baths which the Romans had were revolutionary, not only because they were a social place with underground heating, a sauna, and a coliseum for entertainment nearby, but that they dramatically cut disease. However, there were no public hospitals, just for the rich, and the lead pots, pans and pipes which water was carried through gave alot of people lead poising and nobody knew this.