Medicine Flashcards
Date of Black Death hitting England:
1348
Date of First British printing press:
1470s
Date Vesalius’ The fabric of the human body
1543
Date Harvey’s ‘on the motions of the Heart and Blood’
1628
Date Royal Society Founded:
1660
Date Great plague hits London:
1665
Date of Sydenham’s Medical Observations
1676
Date Jenner publishes his vaccination findings.
1798
Date James Simpson discovers chloroform:
1847
Date smallpox vaccination made compulsory:
1853
Date John Snow’s ‘On the mode of Communication of cholera’
1855
Date Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on nursing’
1859
Date Pasteur publishes the Germ Theory:
1861
Date of Public Health Act:
1875
Date Robert Koch identifies anthrax spores:
1876
Date Wihelm Rontgen discovers X-rays
1895
Date Ehrlich and Hata discover the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606
1909
Date Alexander Fleming discovers penecillin:
1928
Date Domagk discovers the second magic bullet prontosil:
1932
Date Florey and Chain purify penicillin:
1928
Date government launches diphtheria vaccination campaign
1940
Date NHS is founded:
1948
Date Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA
1953
Date governments first polio vaccination campaign:
1956
Date Cigarette adverts banned from television:
1965
Date Christiaan Barnard completes first heart transplant:
1967
Date Human Genome project completed:
2003
Date smoking banned in public places:
2006-7
