1. Medicine Through Time (key dates) Flashcards
When was the Black Death?
1348
When was the first British printing press
1470s
By 1349, what percentage of Britain’s population had been killed due to the Black Death?
40%
When did Versalius publish ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’?
1543
When did Harvey publish ‘On the motions of the heart and the blood’?
1628
When was the Royal Society founded?
1660
When was the publication of the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ (first scientific journal)?
1665
When did the Great Plague hit London?
1665
When did Sydenham publish his ‘Medical Observations’ book?
1676 (used for medical training for 200 years)
When did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?
1798
When did James simpson discover chloroform?
1847
When was smallpox vaccination made compulsory?
1853
When was John Snow’s ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera created?
1855
When was Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on Nursing created’?
1859
When did Pasteur publish his Germ theory?
1861
When was the first compulsory public health act?
1875
When does Robert Koch identify anthrax spores?
1876
When does Wilhelm Rontgen discovery X-rays?
1895
When do Ehrlich and Hata discovery the first magic bullet?
1909
When does Fleming discover Penicillin?
1928
When is the second magic bullet, Prontosil discovered?
1932
When do the Government release the diptheria vaccination campaign?
1940
When was the NHS founded?
1948
When did Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?
1953
