The Romans built great aqueducts to carry fresh water from the mountains to the cities. Many of these aqueducts are still standing today. The Roman _____even set up a ___ health service. They built the first great public hospitals in Europe, and they paid doctors to look after poor people.
When the Roman Empire fell to pieces, these _____ methods of treatment _____ from most of Europe, for more than a thousand years. People went back to the old ways. They lived in dirty conditions, which helped to cause diseases; and they asked God to cure the _____. They shut up _____ sick people in prisons. Or they burnt them alive because they were supposed to have _____ powers. But the work of the Greek and Roman doctors was not lost.
Over a thousand years ago, the Arabs moved into many of the Mediterranean countries. They took big parts of the old _____ lands. ______________________________ Arab doctors themselves made many new discoveries.
___________________________________________ Slowly, European doctors discovered again the things that the Greeks and Romans had known so long ago. ____________________________
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