Dates in Revolutionary Flashcards
when had elizabeth garret anderson learned french in order to obtain a medical degree?
1870
when did elizabeth garret anderson gain membership of the BMA?
1873
when was a law passed to allow women to enter medical professions?
1867
when did elizabeth garret anderson set up new hospital for women and children?
1872
when was the London School of Medicine for Women founded?
1874
when did humphry davy discover that nitrous oxide worked as an effective local anaesthetic?
1799
when did horace wells use nitrous oxide in a public demonstration to remove a tooth?
1845
when was the first public demonstration of ether?
1846
when did crawford long discover anaesthetic qualities of ether?
1842
when did james simpson discover that chloroform was an effective general anaesthetic?
1847
when was chloroform popularised by queen victoria?
1853
when did william halstead investigate using cocaine as local anaesthetic?
1884
when did ignaz semmelweiss propose hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions?
1847
when did ignaz semmelweiss publish ‘Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of childbed fever’ ?
1861
when was lister’s operation at King’s College Hospital to promote use of carbolic spray?
1877
when did florence nightingale become a nurse?
1849
when was ‘notes on nursing’ published?
1859
when was Nightingale School of Nursing in St Thomas’ Hospital set up?
1860
when was Pasteur asked by a French winemaker to investigate why their wine was going off?
1850s
when did louis pasteur publish his work on germ theory?
1861
when was pasteur working with his assistant, Charles Chamberland, to try to find a cure for chicken cholera?
1879
when was pasteur’s public sheep anthrax experiment?
1881
when did koch identify the germ that causes anthrax?
1876
when did koch identify the germ that causes septicaemia?
1878
when did koch identify the germ that causes TB?
1882
when did koch identify the germ that causes cholera?
1883
when did Edwin Klebs discover the diptheria germ?
1883
when did Emil von Behring produce an antitoxin from blood of animals just recovered from diptheria?
1891
when did william roberts carry out a series of experiments to prove that the idea of spontaneous generation was wrong?
1870s
when did ehrlich receive the nobel prize in medicine for his research on the immune system?
1908
when did ehrlich try to find chemicals which could act as synthetic antibodies?
1889
when did ehrlich identify the bacteria which causes syphilis?
1905
when did Sahachiro Hata join Ehrlich?
1909
when were the first successful human trials of salvarsan 606?
1911
when was gerhard domagk awarded the nobel prize for physiology?
1939
when did people begin to move from rural to urban areas?
1750
when was chadwick’s ‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain’ published?
1842
when was first revolutionary-period public health act?
1848
when did cholera first arrive in england?
1831
when were the cholera epidemics?
- 1831 - killed 50,000 people
- 1848
- 1854
- 1866
when was the great stink?
summer 1858
when was bazalgette appointed to design london’s sewer system?
1859
when did london’s sewer system officially open?
1865
when was london’s sewer system completed?
1875
when was the 2nd public health act?
1875
when did the gvt form the Government Board and divide Britain into ‘sanitary areas’ administered by officers for public health?
1871-2
when was the Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act ?
1875
when did Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham, persuade city authorities to buy local gas and water companies?
1875
when was the Sale of Food and Drugs Act?
1875
when was the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act?
1876
