medicine through time: dates

Question 1

1348

[key date]

Answer 1

Black Death arrives in Britain.

Question 2

c.1440

[key date]

Answer 2

printing press was invented.

by Johannes Gutenberg.

Question 3

1536

Answer 3

dissolution of the monasteries.

Question 4

1543

Answer 4

publication of ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’.

by Vesalius.

Question 5

1628

Answer 5

publication of ‘Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus’. (book on circulation of blood)

by William Harvey.

Question 6

1660

[key date]

Answer 6

Royal Society meet in London for the first time.

Question 7

1665

[key date]

Answer 7

Great Plague arrives in Britain.

Question 8

1676

[key date]

Answer 8

publication of ‘Observationes Medicae’.

by Thomas Sydenham.

Question 9

1796

[key date]

Answer 9

research on smallpox started + vaccine invented.

by Edward Jenner.

Question 10

1803

Answer 10

Royal Jennerian Society established.

Question 11

1842

Answer 11

ether successfully used to anaesthetise patient.

by William E. Clarke.

Question 12

1847

Answer 12

effects of chloroform discovered.

by James Simpson.

Question 13

1854

[key date]

Answer 13

significance of the Broad Street Pump in causing cholera discovered + published.

by John Snow.

Question 14

1854

Answer 14

wounded soldiers in crimean war treated.

by Florence Nightingale.

Question 15

1859

Answer 15

publication of ‘Notes in Hospitals’.

by Florence Nightingale.

Question 16

1861

[key date]

Answer 16

publication of Germ Theory.

by Louis Pasteur.

Question 17

1865

Answer 17

carbolic acid used in surgery for the first time.

by Joseph Lister.

Question 18

1875

[key date]

Answer 18

Second Public Health Act

Question 19

1878

Answer 19

work on creating vaccinations started.

by Louis Pasteur.

Question 20

1882

state 2 events.

Answer 20

discovery of the bacteria causing tuberculosis + publication of Koch’s postulates (4 hypotheses).

by Robert Koch.

Question 21

1895

Answer 21

discovery of x-rays.

by William Roentgen.

Question 22

1898

Answer 22

Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) founded.

Question 23

1901

Answer 23

discovery of blood groups.

by Karl Landsteiner.

Question 24

1907

Answer 24

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) founded.

Question 25

1909

[key date]

Answer 25

discovery of the first magic bullet (Salvarsan 606).

by Paul Ehrlich + Sahachrio Hata.

Question 26

1914

Answer 26

discovery that sodium citrate stops blood from clotting.

by Albert Hustin.

Question 27

19 October 1914

[WW1]

Answer 27

First Battle of Ypres.

Question 28

17 April 1915

[WW1]

Answer 28

use of mines at Hill 60.

Question 29

22 April 1915

[WW1]

Answer 29

Second Battle of Ypres.

Question 30

1 July 1916

[WW1]

Answer 30

Battle of Somme.

Question 31

9 April 1917

[WW1]

Answer 31

Battle of Arras.

Question 32

31 July 1917

[WW1]

Answer 32

Third Battle of Ypres.

Question 33

20 October 1917

[WW1]

Answer 33

Battle of Cambrai.

Question 34

1917

Answer 34

first blood depot is used, at the Battle of Cambria.

by Oswald H. Robertson.

Question 35

1928

Answer 35

discovery of penicillin.

by Alexander Fleming.

Question 36

1932

Answer 36

discovery of the second magic bullet (Prontosil).

by Gerhard Domagk.

Question 37

1941

Answer 37

penicillin is developed into a usable treatment.

by Howard Florey + Ernest Chain.

Question 38

1942

Answer 38

national immunisation campaign against diphtheria is launched.

Question 39

1948

[key date]

Answer 39

National Health Service (NHS) is launched.

by Aneurin Bevan.

Question 40

1953

Answer 40

structure of DNA discovered.

by Rosalind Franklin + James Watson + Francis Crick.

Question 41

1956

Answer 41

Clean Air Act.

Question 42

1990

Answer 42

Human Genome Project began.

lead by Francis Colins.