Important Dates Flashcards
1
Q
What year did the Black Death hit Britain?
A
1348
2
Q
What year was Vesalius’ ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’
A
1543
3
Q
When was Britain’s first printing press made?
A
1470s
4
Q
When was the Royal Society founded?
A
1660
5
Q
When was Harvey’s ‘On the Motions of the Heart and Blood’?
A
1628
6
Q
When did the Great Plague hit London?
A
1665
7
Q
When was Sydenham’s ‘Medical Observations’
A
1676
8
Q
When did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?
A
1798
9
Q
When did James Simpson chloroform?
A
1847
10
Q
When was the smallpox vaccination made compulsory?
A
1853
11
Q
When was John Snow’s ‘On the Mode or Communication of Cholera’?
A
1855
12
Q
When was Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes On Nursing’?
A
1859
13
Q
When did Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?
A
1861
14
Q
When was the Public Health Act?
A
1875
15
Q
When did Robert Koch identify anthrax spores?
A
1876
