Medicine Flashcards
1
Q
Date of Black Death hitting England:
A
1348
2
Q
Date of First British printing press:
A
1470s
3
Q
Date Vesalius’ The fabric of the human body
A
1543
4
Q
Date Harvey’s ‘on the motions of the Heart and Blood’
A
1628
5
Q
Date Royal Society Founded:
A
1660
6
Q
Date Great plague hits London:
A
1665
7
Q
Date of Sydenham’s Medical Observations
A
1676
8
Q
Date Jenner publishes his vaccination findings.
A
1798
9
Q
Date James Simpson discovers chloroform:
A
1847
10
Q
Date smallpox vaccination made compulsory:
A
1853
11
Q
Date John Snow’s ‘On the mode of Communication of cholera’
A
1855
12
Q
Date Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on nursing’
A
1859
13
Q
Date Pasteur publishes the Germ Theory:
A
1861
14
Q
Date of Public Health Act:
A
1875
15
Q
Date Robert Koch identifies anthrax spores:
A
1876
