Important Dates Flashcards
What year did the Black Death hit Britain?
1348
What year was Vesalius’ ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’
1543
When was Britain’s first printing press made?
1470s
When was the Royal Society founded?
1660
When was Harvey’s ‘On the Motions of the Heart and Blood’?
1628
When did the Great Plague hit London?
1665
When was Sydenham’s ‘Medical Observations’
1676
When did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?
1798
When did James Simpson chloroform?
1847
When was the smallpox vaccination made compulsory?
1853
When was John Snow’s ‘On the Mode or Communication of Cholera’?
1855
When was Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes On Nursing’?
1859
When did Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?
1861
When was the Public Health Act?
1875
When did Robert Koch identify anthrax spores?
1876
When did Ehrlich and Hata discover the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606?
1909
When did Wilhelm Röntgen discover X-rays?
1895
When did Domagk discover the second magic bullet, Prontosil?
1932
When did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
1928
When did Florey and Chain purify penicillin?
1938-40
When did the government launch diphtheria vaccination campaign?
1940
When was the NHS founded?
1948
When did Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?
1953
When was the government’s first polio vaccination campaigned?
1956
When were cigarette adverts banned from television?
1965
When did Christiaan Barnard complete the first heart transplant?
1967
When was the Human Genome Project?
2003
When was smoking banned in public places?
2006-7
