Medieval Medicine Key Dates

Question 1

what happened in 1123?

Answer 1

St Bartholomew’s hospital founded

Question 2

what happened in 1230?

Answer 2

‘Compendium Medicine’ written mixing Arab and European medicine by Gilbert Eagle

Question 3

what happened in 1247?

Answer 3

St Mary of Bethlehem hospital founded

Question 4

what happened in 1249?

Answer 4

St Giles hospital in Norwich set up

Question 5

what happened in 1267?

Answer 5

Hugh of Lucca publishes his idea about pus, wine and infection

Question 6

what happened in 1277?

Answer 6

Roger Bacon arrested for spreading anti church views

Question 7

what happened in 1283?

Answer 7

Cairo Hospital established

Question 8

what happened in 1298?

Answer 8

Latrines built in York after King Edward complains

Question 9

what happened in 1315?

Answer 9

Mondino wrote Anathomia and completed the first recorded dissection

Question 10

what happened in 1333?

Answer 10

Glamorgan bans waste in the street

Question 11

what happened in 1337?

Answer 11

Hundred years war

Question 12

what happened in 1348?

Answer 12

Black Death arrives in England

Question 13

what happened in 1350?

Answer 13

John Of Arderne writes ‘Practice of Surgery’

Question 14

what happened in 1363?

Answer 14

De Chauliac writes ‘Great Surgery’

Question 15

what happened in 1368?

Answer 15

Guild of Surgeons set up in London by John of Arderne

Question 16

what happened in 1388?

Answer 16

Parliament passes £20 fine for not disposing of waste properly

Question 17

what happened in 1421?

Answer 17

Mayor of Coventry orders everyone to clean outside their homes