timeline

Question 1

Black Death

Answer 1

1347-48
more than 25 million people died

Question 2

The Printing Press

Answer 2

1455

Question 3

Andreus Vesalius

Answer 3

1540s
Fabric Of The Body - 1543

Question 4

William Harvey

Answer 4

1620s
Proved that blood circulates around the body and flows from the heart

Question 5

The Great Plague

Answer 5

1665

Question 6

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 6

1668
creates a superior Microscope

Question 7

Edward jenner

Answer 7

1796
Discovered vaccinations

Question 8

Humphrey davy

Answer 8

1799
Discovered Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas)

Question 9

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 9

1842
Reports on the state of health of the people in
cities, towns and villages to the Poor Law Commission

Question 10

James Simpson

Answer 10

1847
Discovers chloroform

Question 11

First Public Health Act

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Florence Nightingale

Answer 12

1854

Question 13

John Snow

Answer 13

1854
proves the link between the cholera epidemic and
the water pump in Broad Street, London

Question 14

Louis Pasteur

Answer 14

1861
Germ Theory developed by Louis Pasteur whilst he was working
on a method to keep beer and wine fresh

Question 15

Joseph Lister

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Second Public health Act

Answer 16

1875
now made compulsory. Major
requirement is that sewers must be moved away from housing
and that houses must be a certain distance apart.

Question 17

Robert Koch

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Discovery of different blood groups

Answer 18

1901
100% success rate of transfusions

Question 19

Paul Ehrlich

Answer 19

1905
Discovers the first ‘magic bullet’ - Salvarsan 606 for syphilis

Question 20

National Health Insurance

Answer 20

1911

Question 21

Alexander Flemming

Answer 21

1928
Discovers Penicillin

Question 22

Florey and Chain

Answer 22

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

Question 23

William Beveridge

Answer 23

1942
Publishes the beveridge report
Laid the blueprints of the NHS

Question 24

NHS

Answer 24

1948

Question 25

William Bigelow

Answer 25

1950
Performed the first open heart surgery

Question 26

First Kidney transplant

Answer 26

1952