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Medical Timeline Flashcards

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C2600BC

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Imhotep - apparently first physician devoid of mgical thinking (in Ancient Egypt)

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C1800BC

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Code of Hammurabi - ancient Babylonian code of practice for surgeons

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C1500BC

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Edwin Smith papyrus - first medical text devoid of magical thinking

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C5th BC

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Diogenes of Apollonia - irreducibility (nothing comes from nothing)
Herodotus described multiple types of doctors, and specialisation to some degree

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420BC

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Hippocrates

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250BC

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Herophilus’ systematic dissections of the human body; beleived to have dissected over 600 bodies
Is often quoted by Galen
Devised method to measure pulse using water-clock

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420BC

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Praxagorus distinguishes between veins and arteries

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250BC

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Erasistratus’ dissection of the brain
Founds school of anatomy with Herophilus
Idea of the pneuma

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50AD

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De Materia Medica
Celsus’ medical encyclopedia
(but Library of Alexandria destroyed 48)

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1st-2ndCAD

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Time of Galen

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400AD

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First hospital in Christendom, in Rome

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12
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1070s

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Arabic texts translated into Greek

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1084

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First documented hospital in england i Canterbury

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1200AD

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250 hospitalia i England by 1200AD

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1123

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St Bartholomew’s hospital founded

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1302

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University of Bologna dissections begin

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17
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Mid-1300s

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Black death

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18
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C15th

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printing revolution

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C16th

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Santorio Santorio input/output

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1543

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Vesalius’ ‘On the fabric of the human body’

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21
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1665

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Robert Hooke’s ‘Micrographia’ coins term ‘cell’

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Late C17th

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Microscope

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C18th

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John Hunter, universities empirical stress
Mid C18th - Morgagni, ‘on the seats and causes of disease’ organ pathology
Late C18th-early C19th Bichat tissue pathology
Broussais irritation

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1789-99

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French Revolution

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C19th

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First full-time scientists employed in Germany

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1824

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Institute of Chemistry founded in Geissen by von Liebeg

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1828

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Wohler - urea synthesis

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1830

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Joseph Lister combines microscope lenses to reduce blurring

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1833

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Term ‘scientist’ coined in analogy to artist

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1840s

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Chloroform, nitrous oxide, and ether discovered

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1846

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first public surgery under anaesthesia

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1809

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McDowell - first successful removal of ovarian tumour

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1854

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John Snow traces cholera outbreak to a water pump

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1855

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Virchow’s Cellula e cellula

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1855

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British Medical Association developed (from 1832 Provincial and Medical Surgical Association)

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1832

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Provincial and Medical Surgical Association founded - to promote sharing of knowledge between medics

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Edinburgh Medical Society

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1737 - encouraging peer-reviewing

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Royal College of Physicians

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1518

1860 - examinations introduced

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Barber-Surgeons company

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1745

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Royal College of Surgeons

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1800

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Society of Apocatheries

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1617

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Apothecaries Act

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1815

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1858

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British Medical Act

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1860s

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Joseph Lister introduces carbolic acid

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1865

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Institute of Physiology, Leipzig

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1871

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Three-way microscope invented

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1882; 1884

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Robert Koch discovers TB and Cholera bactillus; uses camera in microscopy

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1885

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Louis Pasteur produces rabies vaccine

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1891

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Robert Koch establishes Berlin’s Centre for Infectious Diseases; develops Four Postulates

50
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1895

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X-Rays discovered

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1900

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Blood types discovered

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1922

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Insulin synthesised

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1924

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Ultracentrifuge allows large-scale analysis of samples

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1927

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Components of DNA identified

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1942

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Bevridge Report promoted reforms to welfare system in UK

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1928

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Alexander Fleming, pencillin

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1931

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Electron microscope

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1935

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Portable pH meter

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1936

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Radiosodium to treat leukaemia

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1951

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Parsons - sick role

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1940

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Half price milk to mothers in UK

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1938

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Emergency Hospital Service in UK

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NHS

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1948

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1857

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Gregor Mendel, basis of DNA work (but monk - dismissed?)

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1850s

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Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Man

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1910s USA

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Hull House, research into toxicology and public health

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1953

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Double helix of DNA discovered

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