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when had elizabeth garret anderson learned french in order to obtain a medical degree?

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1870

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when did elizabeth garret anderson gain membership of the BMA?

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1873

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when was a law passed to allow women to enter medical professions?

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1867

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when did elizabeth garret anderson set up new hospital for women and children?

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1872

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when was the London School of Medicine for Women founded?

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1874

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when did humphry davy discover that nitrous oxide worked as an effective local anaesthetic?

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1799

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when did horace wells use nitrous oxide in a public demonstration to remove a tooth?

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1845

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when was the first public demonstration of ether?

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1846

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when did crawford long discover anaesthetic qualities of ether?

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1842

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when did james simpson discover that chloroform was an effective general anaesthetic?

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1847

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when was chloroform popularised by queen victoria?

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1853

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when did william halstead investigate using cocaine as local anaesthetic?

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1884

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when did ignaz semmelweiss propose hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions?

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1847

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when did ignaz semmelweiss publish ‘Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of childbed fever’ ?

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1861

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when was lister’s operation at King’s College Hospital to promote use of carbolic spray?

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1877

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when did florence nightingale become a nurse?

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1849

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when was ‘notes on nursing’ published?

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1859

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when was Nightingale School of Nursing in St Thomas’ Hospital set up?

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1860

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when was Pasteur asked by a French winemaker to investigate why their wine was going off?

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1850s

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when did louis pasteur publish his work on germ theory?

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1861

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when was pasteur working with his assistant, Charles Chamberland, to try to find a cure for chicken cholera?

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1879

22
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when was pasteur’s public sheep anthrax experiment?

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1881

23
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when did koch identify the germ that causes anthrax?

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1876

24
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when did koch identify the germ that causes septicaemia?

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1878

25
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when did koch identify the germ that causes TB?

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1882

26
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when did koch identify the germ that causes cholera?

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1883

27
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when did Edwin Klebs discover the diptheria germ?

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1883

28
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when did Emil von Behring produce an antitoxin from blood of animals just recovered from diptheria?

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1891

29
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when did william roberts carry out a series of experiments to prove that the idea of spontaneous generation was wrong?

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1870s

30
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when did ehrlich receive the nobel prize in medicine for his research on the immune system?

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1908

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when did ehrlich try to find chemicals which could act as synthetic antibodies?

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1889

32
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when did ehrlich identify the bacteria which causes syphilis?

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1905

33
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when did Sahachiro Hata join Ehrlich?

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1909

34
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when were the first successful human trials of salvarsan 606?

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1911

35
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when was gerhard domagk awarded the nobel prize for physiology?

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1939

36
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when did people begin to move from rural to urban areas?

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1750

37
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when was chadwick’s ‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain’ published?

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1842

38
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when was first revolutionary-period public health act?

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1848

39
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when did cholera first arrive in england?

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1831

40
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when were the cholera epidemics?

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  • 1831 - killed 50,000 people
  • 1848
  • 1854
  • 1866
41
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when was the great stink?

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summer 1858

42
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when was bazalgette appointed to design london’s sewer system?

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1859

43
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when did london’s sewer system officially open?

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1865

44
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when was london’s sewer system completed?

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1875

45
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when was the 2nd public health act?

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1875

46
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when did the gvt form the Government Board and divide Britain into ‘sanitary areas’ administered by officers for public health?

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1871-2

47
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when was the Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act ?

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1875

48
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when did Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham, persuade city authorities to buy local gas and water companies?

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1875

49
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when was the Sale of Food and Drugs Act?

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1875

50
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when was the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act?

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1876

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