Medicine dates Flashcards
When was the first successful use of ether?
1846
When did James Simpson discover chloroform?
1847
When did Ignaz Semmelweiss order his students to wash their hands?
1847
When did Elizabeth Blackwell become a doctor?
1847
When was the First Public Health Act?
1848
When was the Crimean War?
1854
When did John Snow connect the water pump to cholera?
1854
When did Queen Victoria famously use chloroform?
1857
When did Doctos’ Qualifications first have to be regulated?
1858
When was germ theory developed?
1861
When did Elizabeth Garrett become a doctor?
1865
When did Joseph Lister start using carbolic spray?
1867
When was the Second Public Health Act?
1875
When were the main public health improvements in the UK?
1876
When was anthrax identified?
1881
When was typhus identified?
1880
When was tuberculosis identified?
1882
When was cholera identified?
1883
When was tetanus identified?
1884
When was pneumonia identified?
1886
When was meningitis identified?
1887
When was plague identfied?
1894
When was dysentery identified?
1898
When were isolation hospital first set up?
1889
When did Rontgen discover x rays?
1895
When did Marie Curie discover radioactive elements?
1895
When was the first 100% successful blood transfusion?
1901
When was salvarsan 606 invented?
1905
When was national health insurance introduced?
1911
When was WWI and the first skin grafts?
1914 - 1918
When did Fleming discover penicillin?
1928
When did Domagk discover prontosil?
1932
When did Florey, Chain and Heatley work on producing penicillin?
1937 - 1945
When were emergency hospital schemes introduced?
1939
When was the Beveridge report published?
1942
When did Edwin Chadwick report on the state of health?
1842
