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Number of hospitals set up between 1000 and 1500

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Over 700

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Number of drugs listed in Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine

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760

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Number of books written by Rhazes (who famously wrote Doubts about Galen)

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Over 150

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Abulcasis writes Al Tasrif

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1000

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Number of volumes in Abulcasis’ Al Tasrif

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30

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Black Death arrives in England

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1348

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Fraction of EUROPE that died from Black Death

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nearly 1/2

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Number of Brits killed by Black Death between 1348 and 1350

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1.5 million

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9
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Invention of printing press

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1440

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Great Plague

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1665

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Number who died from Great Plague in London

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about 100,000

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Quarnatine laws to prevent epidemic diseases coming into the country on ships

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1666

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Guy’s hopsital is built

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1724

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Number of general hospitals built in london betwen 1720 and 1750

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5

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Number of patients in London hospitals a year by 1800

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20,000

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Edinburgh Hospital adds a pharmacy which gives the poor free medicine

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1776

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London’s Lock Hospital for venereal disease (STDs) is set up

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1746

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British Hospital for Mothers and Babies is set up

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1749

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John Hunter appointed Surgeon to King George III

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1776

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John Hunter was appointed Surgeon to which King George?

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King George III

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21
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John Hunter writes ‘On Venereal Disease’

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1786

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John Hunter writes ‘Blood inflammation and gunshot wounds’

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1794

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John Hunter experiments on himself with gonorrhoea germs

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1767

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Number of anatomical specimens collected by John Hunter

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3000

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Smallpox mortality rate
30%
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£amount given by government to Jenner for his research
£10,000
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Government gives Jenner £10,000 grant for vaccination research
1802
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Vaccination is made compulsory by British Government
1853
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Jenner publishes vaccination research
1798
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Age of James Phipps when he was given cowpox
8
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Jenner gives cowpox to James Phipps
1796
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Horace Wells uses Nitrous Oxide to remove teeth
1844
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James Simpson discovers Chloroform
1847
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Hannah Greener dies from Chloroform overdose
1848
35
Crimean War
1853-1856
36
Queen Victoria uses anesthetics for childbirth, making it more acceptable and fashionable
1853
37
Louis Pasteur publishes Germ Theory
1861
38
Number of cases Lister mentions in his report on carbolic acid
11
39
Lister publishes the results of using carbolic acid
1867
40
Lister's carbolic acid meant deaths during surgery dropped from ?% to ?%
45% ot 15%
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Decade by which British doctors had accepted germ theory
1880s
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Koch identifies cholera germs
1884
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Koch identifies microbe responsible for anthrax
1876
44
Koch identifies microbe responsible for tuberculosis
1882
45
William Cheyne translates Koch's work, and highlights that not all microbes are harmful
1879
46
Franco-Prussian war ends
1871
47
Pasteur tests his rabies vaccine on humans
1885
48
Pasteur accidentally showed that attenuated chicken cholera germs gave chickens immunity from later bouts of cholera - showing vaccines could prevent disease
1879
49
Paul Ehrlich develops a "Magic Bullet" called Salvarsan 606 to treat syphilis
1909
50
How many compounds did Ehrlich try before finding one that worked
606
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Chadwick's report
1842
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Cholera outbreaks in what years led the government to set up an inquiry into public health
1837 and 1838
53
Number of copies of Chadwick's report sold to public
20,000
54
Number killed in 1848 cholera epidemic
60,000
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First Public Health Act
1848
56
Number of towns who had set up a local board of health by 1853
103
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Central Board of Health is closed down because government interference is resented
1854
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Great Stink
1858
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Joseph Bazalgette completes sewers
1866
60
Length of Bazalgette's sewage system
83 miles
61
Second Reform Act - gives one million working class men the vote
1867
62
Second Public Health Act
1875
63
Second magic bullet for a disease wasn't found until...
1935
64
Fleming discovers penicillin
1928
65
Number of mice Florey and Chain tested on
8
66
Number of soldiers being given penicillin by end of WW2
200,000
67
Penicillin begins to be mass produced by USA
1943
68
% of wounded allied soldiers who would have died without penicillin
15%
69
How much is the pharmaceutical industry worth today?
£200 billion to £300 billion
70
Crick and Watson map out DNA structure | > leads to gene therapy and genetic engineering
1953
71
Free vaccines in UK for TB, polio, measles and rubella etc
Between 1946 and 1969
72
Thalidomide is developed
1957
73
Cyclosporine is developed (immunosuppressant that stops bodies rejecting transplanted organs)
1970
74
MRSA is first reported
1961
75
X-Rays discovered
1895
76
Charles Booth found that ?% of Londoners were living in poverty despite having a job in what year
30% in 1889
77
Liberal Party wins general election
1906
78
Free school meals
1906
79
Old age pensions (Liberal Reforms)
1908
80
Britains first job centres (Liberal Reforms)
1909
81
National Insurance Act (unemployment benefit, free medical treatment, and sick pay)
1911
82
Smallpox is eradicated worldwide
1980
83
Beveridge Report
1942
84
Number of copies of Beveridge report sold in first month
100,000
85
NHS introduced
1948
86
NHS budget 2015-16
£116 billion
87
Microscope is invented
17th Century

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