Medicine Timeline

Question 1

1348

Answer 1

Black Death arrives in Britain.

Question 2

c1440

Answer 2

Printing press invented.

Question 3

1536

Answer 3

Dissolution of the Monasteries in England.

Question 4

1543

Answer 4

Publication of Vesalius’ The Fabric of the Human Body.

Question 5

1628

Answer 5

William Harvey publishes his book on the circulation of the blood.

Question 6

1660

Answer 6

Royal Society meet in London for first time.

Question 7

1665

Answer 7

Great Plague arrives in Britain.

Question 8

1676

Answer 8

Thomas Sydenham publishes Observationes Medicae.

Question 9

1796-98

Answer 9

Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.

Question 10

1803

Answer 10

Royal Jennerian Society establishes.

Question 11

1842

Answer 11

William E. Clarke successfully uses ether to anaesthetise a patient.

Question 12

1847

Answer 12

James Simpson discovers effects of chloroform.

Question 13

1854 (1)

Answer 13

Florence Nightingale treats wounded soldiers in Crimean War.

Question 14

1854 (2)

Answer 14

John Snow discovers significance of the Broad Street pump in causing cholera.

Question 15

1859

Answer 15

Nightingale publishes Notes on Hospitals.

Question 16

1861

Answer 16

Louis Pasteur discovers Germ Theory.

Question 17

1865

Answer 17

Joseph Lister uses carbolic acid in surgeries for first time.

Question 18

1875

Answer 18

Second Public Health Act.

Question 19

1878

Answer 19

Pasteur begins his work creating vaccinations.

Question 20

1882

Answer 20

Robert Koch publishes his four hypotheses, and discovers the bacteria causing tuberculosis.