1. Medicine Through Time (key dates)

Question 1

When was the Black Death?

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

When was the first British printing press

Answer 2

1470s

Question 3

By 1349, what percentage of Britain’s population had been killed due to the Black Death?

Answer 3

40%

Question 4

When did Versalius publish ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’?

Answer 4

1543

Question 5

When did Harvey publish ‘On the motions of the heart and the blood’?

Answer 5

1628

Question 6

When was the Royal Society founded?

Answer 6

1660

Question 7

When was the publication of the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ (first scientific journal)?

Answer 7

1665

Question 8

When did the Great Plague hit London?

Answer 8

1665

Question 9

When did Sydenham publish his ‘Medical Observations’ book?

Answer 9

1676 (used for medical training for 200 years)

Question 10

When did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?

Answer 10

1798

Question 11

When did James simpson discover chloroform?

Answer 11

1847

Question 12

When was smallpox vaccination made compulsory?

Answer 12

1853

Question 13

When was John Snow’s ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera created?

Answer 13

1855

Question 14

When was Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on Nursing created’?

Answer 14

1859

Question 15

When did Pasteur publish his Germ theory?

Answer 15

1861

Question 16

When was the first compulsory public health act?

Answer 16

1875

Question 17

When does Robert Koch identify anthrax spores?

Answer 17

1876

Question 18

When does Wilhelm Rontgen discovery X-rays?

Answer 18

1895

Question 19

When do Ehrlich and Hata discovery the first magic bullet?

Answer 19

1909

Question 20

When does Fleming discover Penicillin?

Answer 20

1928

Question 21

When is the second magic bullet, Prontosil discovered?

Answer 21

1932

Question 22

When do the Government release the diptheria vaccination campaign?

Answer 22

1940

Question 23

When was the NHS founded?

Answer 23

1948

Question 24

When did Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?

Answer 24

1953

Question 25

When were cigarette advertisements banned from television?

Answer 25

1965

Question 26

When does Barnard complete the first heart transplant?

Answer 26

1967

Question 27

When is the Human Genome Project completed?

Answer 27

2003

Question 28

When was smoking banned in public places?

Answer 28

2006-2007