Medical Investigations

By nicoleswanson1
  • 200

    Galen

    tracheotomy
  • Period: 200 to

    Medical History

  • 250

    Erasistratratus

    studies the brain and distinguishes between the cerebrum and cerebellum
  • 354

    Citroolus

    treated loss of an eyeball w/o messing up the face
  • 410

    Greek Book of Epidemics

    410-350 bc
  • 500

    Egyptian Papyrus

  • Sep 10, 1200

    Asclepius Greek God Of Healing

  • Robert Hooke

    reflective microscope

  • Edward Jenner

    discovered first vaccination

  • Hand Washing

    Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing

  • Rodioactivity

    Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity

  • Alexander Fleming

    discovers penicillin

  • First HMO insurance

  • Period: to

    Pedanius Dioscorides

    modern pharmacopoeias that was in use for almost 1600 years

  • MIPPA

    Medicare improvements for Patients and providers act
    provies incentives for practioners who use electronic health records and e-prescribing
  • Period: to 216

    Galen Clinical Medicine

    The resulting tightly integrated and comprehensive system, offering a complete medical philosophy dominated medicine throughout the Middle Ages and until the beginning of the modern era

  • priest phycician

    later defined as the medical god