Just as the atomists, he believed that the body was created from small atoms that moved throughout the body and irregularities in their movements would create diseases. To restore that balance, he used massage or vibrations on the patients. Due to the popularity and great results of his practice, many other physicians followed his doctrine.

Another famous physician in Rome was Claudius Galenus and he was a follower of Hippocrates doctrine in medicine. He revolutionized medicine because he wrote many works on the anatomy of the body but also developed scientific investigation. Not very popular at the time, dissection was his main tool in gaining more knowledge on the body.

Another important figure in ancient Roman medicine was Aulus Cornelius Celsus who was following the advice of Hippocrates and wrote about various methods to heal the body through different techniques such as massage. He wrote De Medicina which was a series of texts that created a great foundation for medicine today and influenced medicine in the Middle Ages, when the text was rediscovered and printed.

Right until the fall of Rome, massage therapy was an important tool in the hands of physicians, healing many people and promoting a healthy life.

Even if massage was common in many cultures whose doctrines might seem, at least at first glance, different, one thing it had in common was the fact that it promoted a healthy body and it was the key to a balanced life.

Without massage many people could have died or at least suffered a lot more, so without any other medical knowledge the ancient world managed to keep people happy with the help of massage, in all its forms, whether it was Chinese, Japanese or based on the principles of Greek physicians.

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