Medicine Dates Flashcards
When did Robert Liston use ether as an anaesthetic ?
1846
When did Simpson discover chloroform as an anaesthetic ?
1847
When was the public health act
1848
When was the cholera epidemic and the introduction of the broad street pump
1854
When was the great stink
1858
When did Nightingale publish her book Notes on Nursing
1859
When was Nightingales school for the training of nurses established
1960
When was Pasteurs germ theory
1861
When did lister use carbolic spray in surgery
1865
When was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson officially qualified to practise medicine
1865
When was the public health act
1875
When was the medical act
1876
When did Pasteur publish his “germ theory and its applications to medicine”
1878
When did Koch identify microorganism causing tuberculosis
1882
When did knock identify the microorganism causing cholera?
1883
When did Roentgen identify the X-ray
1895
When did Landsteiner identify different blood groups
1901
When did Ehrlich develop Salvarsan 606
1909
When did Gillies set up a plastic surgery unit at the Queen’s Hospital in Kent
1917
When was world war 1
1914-18
When did Fleming discover penicillin
1928
When did Florey and Chain begin their work on penicillin
1939
When was the Second World War
1939-45
When was the national health service act
1946
