Medicine key dates Flashcards
When was The Black Death?
1348
When did the Renaissance period start?
1450
When did Vesalius publish his book ‘Fabric of the human body’?
1543
When was William Harvey’s ‘Study of the Motion of the heart and blood of animals’ published?
1628
When was The Great Plague?
1666
When was the start of the industrial revolution?
1750
When did Edward Jenner experiment on James Phipps?
1796
When did Edward Jenner publish his findings?
1798
When did the gov give Edward Jenner £10,000 to open his own vaccination clinic?
1802
When were vaccinations made free for all infants?
1840
When were vaccinations for children made compulsory?
1853
When were parents fined if they didn’t vaccinate their child?
1871
When were parents given the right to chose if their child should be vaccinated?
1887
When did Pasteur begin research into why food went off?
1854
When did Pasteur develop the germ theory?
1861
When did Horace Wells discover Nitrous oxide was an anaesthetic?
1844
When was Ether first used as an anaesthetic during tooth extraction experiment?
Jan 1842
When did William Morton give a public demonstration of Ether in a hospital?
Oct 1846
When was Chloroform discovered as an anaesthetic by James Simpson?
1847
When did Queen Victoria use chloroform during child birth?
1853
When was the start of the Cholera epidemic?
1831
When did Edwin Chadwick publish a survey on the report of the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain?
1842
When was the start of the second cholera epidemic?
1848
When was the 1st public health act?
1848
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?
1860
When was the 1st successful experiment on Jamie using Carbolic acid?
1865
When did Joseph Lister publish results of 11 patients?
1867
When was John Snow’s work?
1854
When was the sanitary act that forced all towns to appoint inspectors to check water supplies and drainage?
1875
When did working class men get to vote?
1867
When did Joseph Chamberlain carry out reforms including demolition of 40 acres of slums?
1870s
