key dates

Question 1

compendium medicine is written by gilbert eagle - a comprehensive english medical textbook blending european and arab knowledge of medicine

Answer 1

c1230

Question 2

black death arrives in england

Answer 2

1348

Question 3

william harvey proves the circulation of the blood

Answer 3

1628

Question 4

guy’s hospital is founded in london

Answer 4

1724

Question 5

edward jenner develops cowpox as a protection against smallpox

Answer 5

1798

Question 6

james simpson uses chloroform as an anaesthetic

Answer 6

1847

Question 7

first public health act is introduced

Answer 7

1848

Question 8

joseph bazalgette begins building a network of sewers under london’s streets

Answer 8

1858

Question 9

joseph lister publishes a description of carbolic antiseptic in surgery

Answer 9

1867

Question 10

robert koch’s work on the identification of tuberculosis is publicised in britain

Answer 10

1882

Question 11

first of the liberal social reforms - including free school meals for the poorest children, free medical checks and free treatment - is introduced

Answer 11

1906

Question 12

alexander fleming discovers that penicillin kills bacteria

Answer 12

1928

Question 13

NHS comes into operation

Answer 13

1948

Question 14

francis crick and james watson publish their research on the structure of DNA

Answer 14

1953

Question 15

first liver transplant is carried out in america

Answer 15

1963