Dates Flashcards
Black Death
1348
Printing press invented
1440
Dissolution of monasteries
1536
Publication of vesalius’ “the fabric of the human body”
1543
William Harvey published book on circulation of the blood
1628
Great plague
1665
Thomas Sydenham publishes “observationes Medicae”
1676
Edward Jenner discovers smallpox vaccination
1796-98
William Clarke successfully uses ether to anaesthetise a patient
1842
James Simpson discovers effects of chloroform
1847
Florence nightingale treats wounded soldiers in Crimean war
1854
John snow discovers the significance of the board street pump in causing cholera
1854
Nightingale publishes “notes on hopsitals”
1859
Louis Pasteur discovers germ theory
1861
Joseph lister uses carbolic acid in surgeries for the first time
1865
Second public health act
1875
Pasteur begins work creating vaccinations
1878
Robert koch publishes his four hypotheses,and discovers bacteria causing tuberculosis
1882
William roentgen discovers x-rays
1895
Royal army medical corps (RAMC) founded
1898
First aid nursing yeomanry (FANY) founded
1907
Paul ehrlich discovers first magic bullet,Salvarsan 606
1909-10
Albert hustin discovers that sodium citrate stops blood from clotting
1914
First World War
1914-18
First gas attacks,prompts issuing of gas masks
1915
Fleming discovers penicillin
1928
Discovery of the second magic bullet,prontosil
1932
Florey and chain develop penicillin into a usable treatment
1941
NHS is launched
1948
Clean air act passed
1956
Franklin,Watson and crick discover the structure of dna
1953
Human genome project began
1990
