Key Dates Flashcards
1
Q
1546
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Fracostoro - Theory of Contagion
2
Q
1665
A
The Great Plague
3
Q
1676
A
Thomas Sydenham - Observationes Medicae: Disease was separate from the patient and attacked the body
4
Q
1796
A
Edward Jenner vaccinated against smallpox
5
Q
c. 1800
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Spontaneous generation is believed - Rotting causes bacteria - This replaced the idea of the Four humours
6
Q
1861
A
Germ Theory - Louis Pasteur
7
Q
1875
A
The 1875 Public Health Act - Government are less “laissez faire”
8
Q
1948
A
NHS set up - healthcare paid through taxes
9
Q
1953
A
Rosalind Franklin discovers DNA
10
Q
2000
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Human Genome successfully mapped
