Dates Flashcards
When was the Black Death
1348
When did Vesalius publish ‘the fabric of the human body’
1543
When did Harvey publish the ‘an anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood in animals’?
1628
When was the Royal society founded?
In 1645
When was the Great Plague?
1665
When did Lady Mary Wortley Montagu start promoting innoculation?
1721
When did Edward Jenner test his small pox theory?
1796
When was Jenners report published?
Who by?
1798
By himself, the royal society refused to publish it
The Jennerian society offered free vaccinations against smallpox, when was it set up?
1802
Jenner was awarded £10, 000 in recognition of his work and dedication in what year?
1802
When was the small pox vaccine made compulsory?
1852 but it wasn’t enforced until 1872
When was smallpox declared eradicated?
1980
When did Nightingale work in Crimea
1854
When was Florence Nightingale’s ‘notes on nursing published’?
1859
In what decade were 12 new wards opened at St Bartholomew hospital
1660s
When was the Germ theory published?
1861
When was the Germ theory proved?
1864
What year did Koch identify the Anthrax microbe?
1876
How many hospitals opened in the 1700s?
46
When was the first Public Health Act passed?
1848
When did Chadwick publish “a report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring population”?
1842
When did John Snow link dirty water and cholera?
1854
When was the public board of health disbanded?
1854
When was the Great Stink?
1858
When was the factory act passed?
1864
When was the sanitary act passed?
1866
When was the second Public Health act passed?
1875
Who got the vote in 1875?
Working men
When did Robert Koch discover the anthrax microbe?
1876
When was the artisan act passed?
1875
What vaccination did Pasteur come up with in 1879?
Chicken Cholera
When did Pasteur create a rabies vaccination?
1885
When did the dissolution of the monasteries occur?
1530s
When did Booth publish his report “Life and labour of people in London”
1889
When did Rowntree publish ‘Poverty a study of town life’
1901
When was the first liberal reform enacted?
1906
In 1906 exactly what liberal reform was brought in?
Education act; provision of school meals for poorest children
In what year did was the liberal reforms school medical service brought in?
1907
When was the old age pensioners act brought in?
1908
When was back-back housing abolished?
1909
When was the National Health insurance act brought in?
1911
When was the first chemical cure invented?
1909
When did women get the vote?
1918
When did Fleming discover penicillin?
1928
When did Fleming publish his report on penicillin?
1929
When did Domagk discover Prontosil?
1932
When did Florey and Chain read Fleming’s work?
1938
When did Florey and Chain first test penicillin on a person?
1941
When was the Beveridge report published?
1942
When was the National Health service founded?
1948
When was glasses and prescription costs introduced to the NHS?
1951
In what year did the American government donate $80 million to fund the mass production of penicillin?
1942
When did Rosalind Franklin first photograph DNA?
1951
When did Watson and Crick identify the structure of DNA?
1953
When did Watson and Crick win a nobel prize?
1962
When did the human genome project start?
When did it end?
1986 - 2001
When was free milk offered to primary school children?
1934
