Medicine Dates Flashcards
When did the Black Death reach Europe?
1347
When was versalius’ book published?
1543
The fabric of the human body
When did people start using blood transfusions?
1901
When was the anatomy act and what did it do?
1832
Prevented body snatchers from taking bodies from graves for scientific use.
When did John hunter inject himself with the pus of a gonorrhea patient?
1762
When was John hunters book (natural history of teeth) published?
1771
When did the British government make the smallpox vaccine compulsory?
When did Queen Victoria make chloroform popular?
1853
When does Joseph lister first use carbolic spray?
1865.
When did the use of carbolic spray stop?
1865.
When was the first basic microscope made?
1677.
When was Pasteur’s germ theory published?
1861.
When was Pasteur’s germ theory of infection published?
1861
When did John snow publish a book linking cholera and dirty water?
1848
When was the public health act?
1848
In what year did cholera kill 50,000 people?
1831
When did Chadwick write his report on ‘sanitary conditions of labouring population in great Britain’?
1842
In what year did a heat wave make the river Thames smell bad? (Causing the great stink)
1858
When we’re ungerground sewers PLANNED for London?
1858
When we’re the London sewers finally finished?
1866
When was the food and drug act?
1875
When was the 2nd public health act introduced?
1875
When was the housing act? (Allowed for Bad buildings to be knocked down)
1875
When did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
1928
When was the NHS founded?
1948
How many lives did penicillin save?
Over 200 million
When was penicillin later developed by Florey and chain?
1937
When did Florey and chain first use penicillin gon humans?
1940
