Dates in Modern Flashcards
when was the Booth Report?
1889
when were X-rays discovered by Wilhelm Rontgen?
1895
when was radiation discovered by Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie?
1896-98
when did the Second Boer War begin?
1899
when was aspirin discovered?
1899
when were blood groups discovered by Karl Landsteiner?
1900
when was the Rowntree Report?
1901
when was the first successful cornea transplant?
1905
when were free school meals introduced?
1906
when did local education authorities begin to provide free medical inspections for schoolchildren?
1907
when was the Old Age Pensions Act?
1908
when was the Labour Exchanges Act?
1909
when was the National Insurance Act?
1911
when was the the ‘Coolidge Tube’ invented by William Coolidge?
1913
when were mobile x-ray units developed by Marie Curie?
1914
when was sodium citrate discovered to stop blood clotting so it could be stored?
1914
when was insulin discovered?
1921
when did Fleming discover antiseptic lysozyme in tears?
1922
when did Fleming find penicillium fungal spores?
1928
when did Fleming publish his findings in articles?
1929
when were sulphonamides discovered?
1932
when did Gerhard Domagk discover Prontosil?
1935
when did Florey and Chain purify penicillin?
1938
when did the USA join the war? (by dec govt gave out grants to businesses which manufactured penicillin)
1941
when was the Beveridge Report?
1942
when did UK businesses start mass-producing penicillin?
1943
when was mass production of penicillin sufficient for military medical needs?
1944
when were Fleming, Florey, and Chain awarded the nobel prize?
1945
when was the British National Blood Transfusion Service established?
1946
when was the New Towns Act?
1946
when did the NHS start treating patients?
1948
between what dates did the number of NHS doctors double to keep up with demand?
1948-73
when were prescription charges introduced in NHS?
1951
when did Francis Crick and James Watson discover the double helix structure of DNA?
1953
when was the Homes for Today and Tomorrow report?
1961
when was the Committee on Safety of Drugs est.?
1963
when did Christiaan Barnard complete the first successful heart transplant?
1967
when was Louise Brown born?
1978
when was the SARS outbreak?
2002
when was a partial face transplant completed for the first time in France?
2005
when was a first full face transplant carried out in Spain?
2010
