Medicine Through Time DATES

Question 1

Galen develops Theory of Opposites

Answer 1

2nd century AD

Question 2

The Black Death

Answer 2

1348-9

Question 3

Physicians stop believing in 4 humours

Answer 3

1700

Question 4

Thomas Sydenham works as a doctor

Published book ‘Observations Medicae’

Answer 4

1660s/70s

1676

Question 5

Gutenberg’s printing press invented

By this time, hundreds of printing presses across Europe

Answer 5

1440

1500

Question 6

The Royal Society publishes a journal called ‘Philosophical Transactions’

Answer 6

1665

Question 7

Dissolution of the monasteries

Answer 7

1536

Question 8

Andreas Vesalius publishes ‘On the Fabric of the Human Body’

What does the book include?

Answer 8

1543

Anatomical drawings

Question 9

The Great Plague

Answer 9

1665

Question 10

William Harvey publishes his book ‘An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals’

Answer 10

1628

Question 11

By this time, Harvey’s work is being taught in medical schools

Answer 11

1700

Question 12

Microscopes futher improve so that extremely tiny images can be seen clearly

Answer 12

1850

Question 13

Louis Pasteur publishes his ‘Germ Theory’

Answer 13

1861

Question 14

Robert Koch identifies the microbe that causes TB

And Cholera

Answer 14

1882

1883