History of Medicine Flashcards
3000 BC
Prehistoric Medicine
400 BC
Hippocrates
1500-300 BC
Greek Medicine
2000 BC
Egyptian Medicine
400 BC-500 AD
Roman Medicine
162 AD
Galen
1066-1453 AD
High Middle Ages
476-1066 AD
Dark Ages
1450-1750 AD
Renaissance Medicine
1540s
Vesalius
1570s
Pare
1620s
Harvey
1665
The Great Plague
1796
Edwin Jenner
1799
Humphrey Davy
1830s
Industrial Revolution
1831
Cholera
1842
Edwin Chadwick
1847
James Simpson
1846
Ether
1848
First public health act
1854- person
John Snow
1854- event
The Crimean War
1857
Queen Victoria
1858- event
The Great Stink
1858- person
Joseph Bazalgette
1861
Louis Pasteur
1875
Second public health act
1867
Joseph Lister
1876
Public health improvements
1881
Koch
1895
X-rays
1901
Blood Transfusions
1911
National Health Insurance
1928
Alexander Fleming
1914-1918
World War One
1937-45
Florey and Chain
1961
Contraceptive pill
1942
William Beveridge