Medicine- Key Dates Flashcards
When did Edward Jenner publish his work?
1798
When did Edward Jenner test his vaccination theory for smallpox and cowpox?
1796
When was Jenner awarded money for his research?
1802
When was the stethoscope invented?
1816
When was the poor law amendment set up?
1834
When did Edwin Chadwick become secretary of the poor law commissions?
1834
When was the major Smallpox outbreak?
1837
When was the smallpox vaccine (from Edward Jenner) made free to all children?
1840
In what year was life expectancy so bad (the rich would live till 45 and Labourers to 16)
1842
When did Edwin Chadwick publish his book?
1842
When were the ‘clean party’ pishing the government for cleanly rules to be put in place?
1844
In what year was James Simpson the first person to use chloroform (a type of anaesthesia)
1847
When was the first public health act put in place?
1848
In what year was the smallpox vaccination made compulsory to everyone in England
1853
When did Queen Victoria use chloroform for her 8th childbirth?
1853
When did Cholera break out and John Snow recorded the information of all patients?
1854
In what year was the great stink?
1858
When did Thomas Beecham open his first factory in Wigan?
1859
When did Elizabeth Garret-Anderson become the first woman to become a doctor in Britain?
1865
When was the sanitary act put in place?
1866
When did Elizabeth Garret-Anderson open her hospital called the New Hospital for Women and Children?
1872
