Timeline Flashcards
What year did the Black Death hit Britain?
1348
When was the first British printing press created?
1470s
What year did Vesalius’ publish ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’?
1543
What year did Harvey publish ‘On the Motions of the Heart and Blood’?
1628
In what year was the Royal Society founded?
1660
What year did the Great Plague hit London?
1665
What year did Sydenham publish ‘Medical Observations’?
1676
What year did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?
1798
What year did James Simpson discover chloroform?
1847
When was the smallpox vaccination made compulsory?
1853
When did John Snow publish ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera’?
1855
When did Florence Nightingale publish ‘Notes on Nursing’?
1859
When did Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?
1861
When was the first Public Health Act?
1848
When did Robert Koch identify anthrax spores?
1876
When did Wilhelm Rontgen discover X-rays?
1895
When did Ehrlich and Hata discover the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606?
1909
When did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
1928
When did Domagk discover the second magic bullet, Prontosil?
1932
When did Florey and Chain purify penicillin?
1938-40
When did the government launch the diphtheria vaccination campaign?
1940
When was the NHS founded?
1948
When did Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?
1953
When was the governments first polio vaccination campaign?
1956
