Medicine key dates

Question 1

When was The Black Death?

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

When did the Renaissance period start?

Answer 2

1450

Question 3

When did Vesalius publish his book ‘Fabric of the human body’?

Answer 3

1543

Question 4

When was William Harvey’s ‘Study of the Motion of the heart and blood of animals’ published?

Answer 4

1628

Question 5

When was The Great Plague?

Answer 5

1666

Question 6

When was the start of the industrial revolution?

Answer 6

1750

Question 7

When did Edward Jenner experiment on James Phipps?

Answer 7

1796

Question 8

When did Edward Jenner publish his findings?

Answer 8

1798

Question 9

When did the gov give Edward Jenner £10,000 to open his own vaccination clinic?

Answer 9

1802

Question 10

When were vaccinations made free for all infants?

Answer 10

1840

Question 11

When were vaccinations for children made compulsory?

Answer 11

1853

Question 12

When were parents fined if they didn’t vaccinate their child?

Answer 12

1871

Question 13

When were parents given the right to chose if their child should be vaccinated?

Answer 13

1887

Question 14

When did Pasteur begin research into why food went off?

Answer 14

1854

Question 15

When did Pasteur develop the germ theory?

Answer 15

1861

Question 16

When did Horace Wells discover Nitrous oxide was an anaesthetic?

Answer 16

1844

Question 17

When was Ether first used as an anaesthetic during tooth extraction experiment?

Answer 17

Jan 1842

Question 18

When did William Morton give a public demonstration of Ether in a hospital?

Answer 18

Oct 1846

Question 19

When was Chloroform discovered as an anaesthetic by James Simpson?

Answer 19

1847

Question 20

When did Queen Victoria use chloroform during child birth?

Answer 20

1853

Question 21

When was the start of the Cholera epidemic?

Answer 21

1831

Question 22

When did Edwin Chadwick publish a survey on the report of the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain?

Answer 22

1842

Question 23

When was the start of the second cholera epidemic?

Answer 23

1848

Question 24

When was the 1st public health act?

Answer 24

1848

Question 25

When did Joseph Lister realise operations would go well if the wound was free of infection and come up with the idea of using carbolic acid as an antiseptic?

Answer 25

1860

Question 26

When was the 1st successful experiment on Jamie using Carbolic acid?

Answer 26

1865

Question 27

When did Joseph Lister publish results of 11 patients?

Answer 27

1867

Question 28

When was John Snow’s work?

Answer 28

1854

Question 29

When was the sanitary act that forced all towns to appoint inspectors to check water supplies and drainage?

Answer 29

1875

Question 30

When did working class men get to vote?

Answer 30

1867

Question 31

When did Joseph Chamberlain carry out reforms including demolition of 40 acres of slums?

Answer 31

1870s