Medicine Dates

Question 1

When did Robert Liston use ether as an anaesthetic ?

Answer 1

1846

Question 2

When did Simpson discover chloroform as an anaesthetic ?

Answer 2

1847

Question 3

When was the public health act

Answer 3

1848

Question 4

When was the cholera epidemic and the introduction of the broad street pump

Answer 4

1854

Question 5

When was the great stink

Answer 5

1858

Question 6

When did Nightingale publish her book Notes on Nursing

Answer 6

1859

Question 7

When was Nightingales school for the training of nurses established

Answer 7

1960

Question 8

When was Pasteurs germ theory

Answer 8

1861

Question 9

When did lister use carbolic spray in surgery

Answer 9

1865

Question 10

When was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson officially qualified to practise medicine

Answer 10

1865

Question 11

When was the public health act

Answer 11

1875

Question 12

When was the medical act

Answer 12

1876

Question 13

When did Pasteur publish his “germ theory and its applications to medicine”

Answer 13

1878

Question 14

When did Koch identify microorganism causing tuberculosis

Answer 14

1882

Question 15

When did knock identify the microorganism causing cholera?

Answer 15

1883

Question 16

When did Roentgen identify the X-ray

Answer 16

1895

Question 17

When did Landsteiner identify different blood groups

Answer 17

1901

Question 18

When did Ehrlich develop Salvarsan 606

Answer 18

1909

Question 19

When did Gillies set up a plastic surgery unit at the Queen’s Hospital in Kent

Answer 19

1917

Question 20

When was world war 1

Answer 20

1914-18

Question 21

When did Fleming discover penicillin

Answer 21

1928

Question 22

When did Florey and Chain begin their work on penicillin

Answer 22

1939

Question 23

When was the Second World War

Answer 23

1939-45

Question 24

When was the national health service act

Answer 24

1946

Question 25

When did the NHS begin