Medicine Flashcards
129 AD
Galen born
460 BC
Hippocrates born
1518
College of physicians founded by Henry VIII
1300
Dissection of bodies began
1348
Black Death
1660
The royal society
14th century
Renaissance
1527
Paracelsus started lecturing and questioning Galen and burning one of his books and rejecting 4 humours invited anyone including barber-surgeons
1665
Great plague
1666
Great fire of London
1454
Johann Gutenberg introduced printing to Europe accelerate rate of process in medicine
1514
Vesalius born. did dissections and professor at Padua.
1543
Vesalius wrote ‘The Fabric Of The Human Body’
1510
Pare born, barber-surgeon. Created ligatures instead of cauterisation (which involved a hot iron) to prevent blood loss. Became surgeon to King of France
1578
William Harvey born. Studied medicine and anatomy at Padua. Became royal physician to James 1 and Charles 1. Harvey disproved Galen’s theory that blood was not consumed by body, but circulated. Found diff between arteries and veins
18th century
Lady montagu introduces innoculation from Turkey to Britain
1796
Jenner tests his innoculation theory using cowpox to prevent smallpox on a boy called James Phipps
1853
Vaccination became compulsory for infants
1854
Crimean war
1849
Florence nightingale studies in Europe, brings new discipline to job and improved hygiene in hospital wards. She reduced death rate to only 2% upon arriving at the hospital
1831
Cholera In Britain
1842
Chadwick report on sanitary conditions of the working population of Britain. To improve public health
1848
First public health act