Important dates Flashcards
Writing developed in Egypt
c3000BC
Cult of Asclepius popular
c400BC
Hippocratic Corpus
c420-350BC
Birth of Galen
129
Fall of Rome
476
Synod of Whitby
663
Life of Avicenna
980-1037
Black Death
1348
Printing in Europe
1454
Founding of the Royal Society
1660
Great Plague of London
1665
Inoculation in Britain
1720
First Vaccination
1796
Cholera in Britain
1831
Chadwick report
1842
Ether and Chloroform in use
1846/7
1st Public Health Act
1848
Cholera linked to water pollution
1854 (by Snow)
Germ Theory
1857 (by Pasteur)
Public Health Act
1875
Antiseptic in general use
1890
First X-rays
1895
Becquerel discovers radioactivity
1896
Blood groups discovered
1900
Liberal reforms
1906
Penicillin
1928 (by Fleming)
World War II
1939-45
First kidney transplant
1951
Structure of DNA identified
1953
The Pill
Late 1950s
AIDS discovered
1981