Medicine Key Dates

Question 1

Egyptian times

Answer 1

3000BC-1000BC

Question 2

Greek Times

Answer 2

1000BC-250BC

Question 3

Roman Times

Answer 3

500BC-500AD

Question 4

When did the roman’s take over Britain?

Answer 4

43AD

Question 5

In what century did Galen release the theory of opposites?

Answer 5

The 2nd century AD

Question 6

Prehistoric times

Answer 6

Before 3000BC

Question 7

The Middle Ages

Answer 7

400-1350AD

Question 8

The Medical Renaissance

Answer 8

1350-1750AD

Question 9

When was “The Fabric of the Human Body” published?

Answer 9

1543

Question 10

When was the water closet invented?

Answer 10

1596

Question 11

When did Harvey publish his work?

Answer 11

1628

Question 12

When was the major plague outbreak?

Answer 12

1665

Question 13

When did the government make gin more expensive?

Answer 13

1750

Question 14

When did Edward Jenner discover and publish vaccination?

Answer 14

1798

Question 15

When did Edwin Chadwick publish his results?

Answer 15

1842

Question 16

When were the two Public Health Acts of the 19 century?

Answer 16

1848 and 1875

Question 17

When was the smallpox vaccine made compulsory?

Answer 17

1853

Question 18

When was the major cholera outbreak of the 19th century?

Answer 18

1854

Question 19

When was the Crimean war?

Answer 19

1854-56

Question 20

When did John Snow link water quality to disease?

Answer 20

1854

Question 21

When did the Germ theory get published?

Answer 21

1861

Question 22

When did vaccines have to be registered?

Answer 22

1871

Question 23

When did Elizabeth Garrett Anderson become a doctor?

Answer 23

1876

Question 24

When was the National Insurance act?

Answer 24

1911

Question 25

When did Alexander Fleming do his work with penicillin?

Answer 25

1928-29

Question 26

When was the depression?

Answer 26

1930s

Question 27

When did Howard Florey get the US government to fund penicillin production?

Answer 27

1941

Question 28

When was the NHS set up by Anuerin Bevan?

Answer 28

1948

Question 29

When was DNA discovered?

Answer 29

1953

Question 30

When was the Human Genome Project started?

Answer 30

1990