Important dates Flashcards by Gabriele shaw | Brainscape

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Writing developed in Egypt

A

c3000BC

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Cult of Asclepius popular

A

c400BC

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Hippocratic Corpus

A

c420-350BC

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Birth of Galen

A

129

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Fall of Rome

A

476

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Synod of Whitby

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663

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Life of Avicenna

A

980-1037

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Black Death

A

1348

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Printing in Europe

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1454

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Founding of the Royal Society

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1660

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Great Plague of London

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1665

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Inoculation in Britain

A

1720

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First Vaccination

A

1796

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Cholera in Britain

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1831

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Chadwick report

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1842

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Ether and Chloroform in use

A

1846/7

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1st Public Health Act

A

1848

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Cholera linked to water pollution

A

1854 (by Snow)

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Germ Theory

A

1857 (by Pasteur)

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Public Health Act

A

1875

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Antiseptic in general use

A

1890

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First X-rays

A

1895

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Becquerel discovers radioactivity

A

1896

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Blood groups discovered

A

1900

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Liberal reforms

A

1906

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Penicillin

A

1928 (by Fleming)

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World War II

A

1939-45

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First kidney transplant

A

1951

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Structure of DNA identified

A

1953

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The Pill

A

Late 1950s

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AIDS discovered

A

1981