Medicine through time - Key Dates

Question 1

when was the black death?

Answer 1

1347-1348

Question 2

When was Vesalius’ “Fabric of the human body” published?

Answer 2

1543

Question 3

when was Pare’s work on surgery published?

Answer 3

1575

Question 4

when did Harvey publish his discoveries in the circulation of blood?

Answer 4

1657

Question 5

what epidemic happened in 1665?

Answer 5

The Great Plague

Question 6

when did Davy discover the anaesthetic laughing gas?

Answer 6

1799

Question 7

which anaesthetic was first used in 1846?

Answer 7

The first operation using Ether

Question 8

When did James Simpson discover chloroform?

Answer 8

1847

Question 9

when did queen Victoria give birth using chloroform?

Answer 9

1857

Question 10

what did Freud discover could be used as an anaesthetic in 1884?

Answer 10

Cocaine

Question 11

When did Lister discover Carboxylic spray?

Answer 11

1865

Question 12

When did Halstead and Lister create aseptic surgery?

Answer 12

1890

Question 13

When did Roentgen first use X Rays?

Answer 13

1891

Question 14

when did Jenner discover the Small Pox vaccine?

Answer 14

1798

Question 15

when was the Crimean war where Nightingale revolutionised hospitals?

Answer 15

1854

Question 16

When did Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?

Answer 16

1861

Question 17

When did Koch discover the Anthrax germ?

Answer 17

1877

Question 18

When did Pasteur discover the vaccine for chicken cholera?

Answer 18

1879

Question 19

when was the cholera epidemic?

Answer 19

1832

Question 20

When was the Chadwick report?

Answer 20

1842

Question 21

When was the first public health act?

Answer 21

1848

Question 22

When did Snow prove the link between cholera and dirty water?

Answer 22

1854

Question 23

when was the second public health act?

Answer 23

1875

Question 24

When did Elrich discover the first magic bullet (Salvarsan 606)?

Answer 24

1905

Question 25

When did Barnard do the first heart transplant?

Answer 25

1867

Question 26

When was the first CAT scanner used?

Answer 26

1979

Question 27

When did Fleming discover penicillin (first antibiotic)?

Answer 27

1928

Question 28

When did Florey and Chain mass produce Penicillin?

Answer 28

1942

Question 29

when was the National Insurance Scheme introduced?

Answer 29

1911

Question 30

When did Beveridge propose and begin the NHS?

Answer 30

1942 - 1948