medicine key dates Flashcards
1
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1345
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black death arrives in england
2
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1440
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printing press invented
3
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1536
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end of the monasteries in england
4
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1543
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publication of Vesalius’ “The fabric of the human body”
5
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1546
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“On Contagion” suggests disease was spread in the air
6
Q
1628
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william harvey publishes his book on the blood circulation
7
Q
1665
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great plague arrives in britain
8
Q
1660
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royal society meet in london for the first time
9
Q
1676
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thomas sydenham publishes “observationes medicae”
10
Q
1683
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leeuwenhoek developed more powerful microscopes
11
Q
1796-98
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jenner discovers smallpox vaccination
12
Q
1803
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royal jennerian society establisghed
13
Q
1884
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john snow discovers the significance of the broad street pump in causing cholera
14
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1859
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nightingale publishes “notes on hospitals”
15
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1843
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william clark uses ether to anaesthetise a patient
