Key Dates (Medicine) Flashcards
1
Q
1861
A
Louis Pasteur discovered Germ Theory
2
Q
1928
A
Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin
3
Q
1348
A
Black Death
4
Q
1796
A
Edward Jenner created Smallpox vaccine
5
Q
1847
A
James Simpson used Chloroform as an anaesthetic
6
Q
1628
A
William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood
7
Q
1909
A
Salvarsan 606 was discovered as the first magic bullet and the first Chemical Cure
8
Q
1948
A
NHS was set up
9
Q
1543
A
Vesalius’s book ‘Fabric of the Human Body’ was released
10
Q
1876
A
First public health act
11
Q
1510
A
Pare
12
Q
1665
A
The Great Plague
13
Q
1853-56
A
The Crimean War
14
Q
1859
A
Florence Nightingale wrote ‘Notes on Nursing’
15
Q
1911
A
National Insurance Act
