Dates Flashcards
Galen travelled to Rome to become known
162AD
Romans left Britain
410AD
Four women caught throwing rotten blood in the street
1301
Butchers ordered to use a segregated area for butchering animals
1345
2 shillings fine for litter introduced
1345
The Black Death
1347-1353
Human dissections important part of medical education
1300s
Universities in England dissected humans as well
1500
Vesalius fabric of the human body book
1543
Pare sent to support France as a war surgeon
1537
Chloroform
1847
Ether
1846
Four humours theory discarded
1700s
William Harvey book
1628
Semmelweis started working in hospitals
1847
Rubber gloves introduced
1894
Rubber gloves invented
1889
System for blood donation
1921
X-rays discoverie
1895
Carbolic acid used in surgery
1867
First vaccination
1796
Small pox eradicated
1980
First compulsory vaccination
1852
Vaccinations optional again
1887
Germ theory
1861
Louis Pasteur helps beer factory
1856
Franco Prussian war
1870-1871
Chicken cholera
1879
Rabies vaccination for humans
1881
Magic bullets
1905
Fleming discovered penicillin
1928
DNA discovered by crick and watson
1953
Peels factory act
1802
Chadwicks report
1842
Public health act 1, voluntary
1848
First outbreak of cholera
1847
John snow report
1854
Second cholera outbreak
1854
Public health act 2, compulsory
1875
Great stink
1858
Great reform act
1867
Peoples budget
1909
Blood transfusions
1916
Injected anaesthetics
1930s
Sex changes
1940s
National insurance act
1911
Free school meals
1914
Old age pensions
1908
Housing act
1919
Unemployment insurance act
1920
Blind persons act
1920
Town planning act
1909
Beveridge report
1942
General election
1945
WW2
1939-1945
NHS
1948
World health organisation
1948
Elizabeth Blackwell set up New York infirmary for poor women
1850
Koch discovered germs were linked to disease
1825
Edward Jenner book
1798
D-day
1944
Writing developed by Egyptians
3000BC
Blood groups
1900
Florence nightingale set up training school for nurses
1860
Printing press
1454