Health and the people- Key dates

Question 1

When was circulation of the blood proven? Who did it?

Answer 1

William Harvey, 1628

Question 2

What book was written and by who that blended European and Arab knowledge of medicine in medieval times?

Answer 2

Compendium Medicine by Gilbert Eagle, 1230

Question 3

When was the Black Death?

Answer 3

1348

Question 4

When was Guy’s hospital founded in London?

Answer 4

1724

Question 5

When did Jenner develop vaccination for smallpox?

Answer 5

1798

Question 6

When was chloroform as an anasthetic discovered and by who?

Answer 6

James Simpson, 1847

Question 7

When was the First Public Health Act introduced?

Answer 7

1848

Question 8

When was the London Sewer made and by who?

Answer 8

Joseph Bazalgette, 1858

Question 9

When was carbolic acid discovered as an antiseptic and by who?

Answer 9

Joseph Lister, 1867

Question 10

Who identified tuberculosis and when?

Answer 10

Robert Koch, 1882

Question 11

When were the first Liberal social reforms? What did they include?

Answer 11

1906

• Free school meals
• Free medical checks and treatment

Question 12

When was penecillin discovered and by who?

Answer 12

1928, Alexander Flemming

Question 13

When did the NHS come into operation?

Answer 13

1948

Question 14

When was the pattern of DNA photographed and by who?

Answer 14

Rosalind Franklin, 1951

Question 15

When was research on the structure of DNA published and by who?

Answer 15

Francis Crick and James Watson, 1953

Question 16

When was the first liver transplant carried out and where?

Answer 16

1963, America

Question 17

When was the first IVF baby born?

Answer 17

1978

Question 18

When was the human genome project complete?

Answer 18

2003

Question 19

When was the outbreak of COVID?

Answer 19

2019

Question 20

What text was used by barber surgeons in the Renaissance and who was it by?

Answer 20

Compendiosa- Andres Vesalius [1545]

Question 21

What book was published and by who during the Renaissance that revolutionised anatomy and dissections?

Answer 21

The Fabric of the Human Body [1543]- Andres Vesalius

Question 22

What book did Paré publish?

Answer 22

Works on Surgery [1575]

Question 23

What was a book in the Renaissance on herbology?

Answer 23

Nicholas Culpepper’s ‘The Complete Herbal’
[1653]

• highly critical of bloodletting and purging

Question 24

What plague was clearly used to recognise that microbes spread disease in the Industrial era?

Answer 24

Cattle Plague of 1866

• a microbe was found under a microscope
• conclusions were made that identified the cattle plague as a contagious disease

Question 25

Who discovered antiseptics? When?

Answer 25

Joseph Lister [1867 published research]

Question 26

Who discovered germs? When?

Answer 26

Loius Pasteur
1860s

Question 27

Who discovered that different germs caused different diseases and when?

Answer 27

Robert Koch [1876 → Anthrax microobes]
1882 → TB microobe

Question 28

Statistic about cholera and date

Answer 28

[1881] 50,000 people died

Question 29

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 29

1858

Question 30

When were working class men given the vote?

Answer 30

1867

Question 31

Who improved plastic surgery treatments in WW1 and how many men did they treat?

Answer 31

Harrod Gillies treated over 5000 men by 1921

Question 32

How many people were injured during WW1?

Answer 32

20 million

Question 33

Who discovered blood groups?

Answer 33

Karl Landsteiner

Question 34

Who discovered a way to stop blood from clotting and when?

Answer 34

1914, Albert Hustin with a glucose and sodium citrate solution that prevented blood from clotting with the air

Question 35

Example of a social reform in the early 20th century?

Answer 35

School Meals Act [1906]
School clinics set up, free for children

Question 36

When was the NHS founded

Answer 36

1948