timeline Flashcards
Black Death
1347-48
more than 25 million people died
The Printing Press
1455
Andreus Vesalius
1540s
Fabric Of The Body - 1543
William Harvey
1620s
Proved that blood circulates around the body and flows from the heart
The Great Plague
1665
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
1668
creates a superior Microscope
Edward jenner
1796
Discovered vaccinations
Humphrey davy
1799
Discovered Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas)
Edwin Chadwick
1842
Reports on the state of health of the people in
cities, towns and villages to the Poor Law Commission
James Simpson
1847
Discovers chloroform
First Public Health Act
1848
allowed local authorities
to make improvements if they wanted to & if ratepayers gave
them their support.
It enabled local authorities to borrow
money to pay for the improvements
Florence Nightingale
1854
John Snow
1854
proves the link between the cholera epidemic and
the water pump in Broad Street, London
Louis Pasteur
1861
Germ Theory developed by Louis Pasteur whilst he was working
on a method to keep beer and wine fresh
Joseph Lister
1867
using Carbolic Spray during surgery to
fight infection. It reduces the casualty rate of his operations
from 45.7% of deaths to just 15.0 % dying.
Second Public health Act
1875
now made compulsory. Major
requirement is that sewers must be moved away from housing
and that houses must be a certain distance apart.
Robert Koch
1881
discovers the bacteria that causes anthrax. He
establishes a new method of staining bacteria. Using Koch’s
methods, the causes of many diseases were identified quickly
Discovery of different blood groups
1901
100% success rate of transfusions
Paul Ehrlich
1905
Discovers the first ‘magic bullet’ - Salvarsan 606 for syphilis
National Health Insurance
1911
Alexander Flemming
1928
Discovers Penicillin
Florey and Chain
1937-45
work on producing penicillin as a drug.
Their success will make the drug the second most finded
project by the USA in WW2
William Beveridge
1942
Publishes the beveridge report
Laid the blueprints of the NHS
NHS
1948
