Medicine Dates

Question 1

When did the Black Death reach Europe?

Answer 1

1347

Question 2

When was versalius’ book published?

Answer 2

1543

The fabric of the human body

Question 3

When did people start using blood transfusions?

Answer 3

1901

Question 4

When was the anatomy act and what did it do?

Answer 4

1832

Prevented body snatchers from taking bodies from graves for scientific use.

Question 5

When did John hunter inject himself with the pus of a gonorrhea patient?

Answer 5

1762

Question 6

When was John hunters book (natural history of teeth) published?

Answer 6

1771

Question 7

When did the British government make the smallpox vaccine compulsory?
When did Queen Victoria make chloroform popular?

Answer 7

1853

Question 8

When does Joseph lister first use carbolic spray?

Answer 8

1865.

Question 9

When did the use of carbolic spray stop?

Answer 9

1865.

Question 10

When was the first basic microscope made?

Answer 10

1677.

Question 11

When was Pasteur’s germ theory published?

Answer 11

1861.

Question 12

When was Pasteur’s germ theory of infection published?

Answer 12

1861

Question 13

When did John snow publish a book linking cholera and dirty water?

Answer 13

1848

Question 14

When was the public health act?

Answer 14

1848

Question 15

In what year did cholera kill 50,000 people?

Answer 15

1831

Question 16

When did Chadwick write his report on ‘sanitary conditions of labouring population in great Britain’?

Answer 16

1842

Question 17

In what year did a heat wave make the river Thames smell bad? (Causing the great stink)

Answer 17

1858

Question 18

When we’re ungerground sewers PLANNED for London?

Answer 18

1858

Question 19

When we’re the London sewers finally finished?

Answer 19

1866

Question 20

When was the food and drug act?

Answer 20

1875

Question 21

When was the 2nd public health act introduced?

Answer 21

1875

Question 22

When was the housing act? (Allowed for Bad buildings to be knocked down)

Answer 22

1875

Question 23

When did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 23

1928

Question 24

When was the NHS founded?

Answer 24

1948

Question 25

How many lives did penicillin save?

Answer 25

Over 200 million

Question 26

When was penicillin later developed by Florey and chain?

Answer 26

1937

Question 27

When did Florey and chain first use penicillin gon humans?

Answer 27

1940