INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 1830-99

Question 1

1830

Answer 1

Compound microscope could
magnify images by 1000 times

Question 2

1842

Answer 2

Report on the Sanitary Conditions
of the Labouring Population
published by Chadwick

Question 3

1846

Answer 3

Robert Liston uses ether as
anaesthetic

Question 4

1847

Answer 4

James Simpsons chance
discovery of chloroform’s use as
anesthetic.

Question 5

1848

Answer 5

Cholera outbreaks kill 53,000,

1st Public Health Act passed

Question 6

1853

Answer 6

Queen Victoria publicly praises
chloroforms use

The Crimean War begins, last until
1856

Smallpox vaccination made
compulsory for children

Question 7

1854

Answer 7

John Snow discovers Broad
Street pump is cholera source

Question 8

1858

Answer 8

The Great Stink

Question 9

1861

Answer 9

Pasteur publishes Germ Theory

Question 10

1863

Answer 10

Nightingale writes Notes on
Nursing

Question 11

1865

Answer 11

London sewers built by Bazalgette

Question 12

1867

Answer 12

Lister publicises use of antiseptic
in surgery for first time

Question 13

1875

Answer 13

Second Public Health Act

Question 14

1876

Answer 14

Robert Koch links specific bacteria
to specific diseases

Question 15

1885

Answer 15

Pasteur proves how vaccines
work with rabies vaccine

Question 16

1889

Answer 16

Halsted makes rubber gloves for
nurses & doctors

Question 17

1899

Answer 17

Boer War reveals poor state of
young men’s health