Modern Medicine Flashcards
When was the Beveridge report?
1942
The four main reasons why the NHS was created :
Boer war, Charles Booth, Education, Seebohm Rowntree
When was the National Health Service Act?
1948
When was Marshall Aid?
1948
When and what was the National Health Insurance Scheme
1911, Workers and employers paid weekly to a fund which would give them free medical care if they became ill, the state paid a penny as well but the scheme only benefited the employed
Who didn’t the NHIS cover?
Women, children, the unemployed, the elderly, the mentally ill and the chronically ill
Reforms like the Education Act created the what?
The Welfare State
Who was Clement Attlee?
The Labour Prime Minister
Who was Aneurin Bevan?
The Minister Of Health
What did William Beveridge do?
Brought in a series of reforms which eventually established a welfare state
When was the NHS introduced?
1948
Who photographed DNA in 1951?
Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
Who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953?
Watson and Crick
Who originally led the ‘Human Genome Project’ in the 1990’s?
Watson
Who theorised that genes come in pairs?
Mendel
What discovery did Robert Koch make and when did he make it?
In 1884 he discovered that Cholera spreads in water supplies when he found it in drinking water in India
How was penicillin discovered?
In 1928 Alexander Fleming left a petri dish out and went away and when he came back penicillin had grown. In 1938 Howard Florey looked on his discovery and improved it into penicillin that worked on people.
Who created the first magic bullet?
Paul Ehrlich
