Key Dates (Medicine)

Question 1

1861

Answer 1

Louis Pasteur discovered Germ Theory

Question 2

1928

Answer 2

Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin

Question 3

1348

Answer 3

Black Death

Question 4

1796

Answer 4

Edward Jenner created Smallpox vaccine

Question 5

1847

Answer 5

James Simpson used Chloroform as an anaesthetic

Question 6

1628

Answer 6

William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood

Question 7

1909

Answer 7

Salvarsan 606 was discovered as the first magic bullet and the first Chemical Cure

Question 8

1948

Answer 8

NHS was set up

Question 9

1543

Answer 9

Vesalius’s book ‘Fabric of the Human Body’ was released

Question 10

1876

Answer 10

First public health act

Question 11

1510

Answer 11

Pare

Question 12

1665

Answer 12

The Great Plague

Question 13

1853-56

Answer 13

The Crimean War

Question 14

1859

Answer 14

Florence Nightingale wrote ‘Notes on Nursing’

Question 15

1911

Answer 15

National Insurance Act

Question 16

1895

Answer 16

X-rays were invented by Wilhelm

Question 17

1901

Answer 17

Karl Landsteiner discovers Blood Groups

Question 18

1518

Answer 18

John Hunter set up the College of Physicians

Question 19

1867

Answer 19

Joseph Lister discovered Carbolic Acid as an Antiseptic

Question 20

1436

Answer 20

the printing press began to be built