Treatment of illness and disease (dates)

Question 1

Pasteur published his germ theory

Answer 1

1861

Question 2

Koch discovered the anthrax microbe

Answer 2

1876

Question 3

Pasteur solves the problem of chicken cholera

Answer 3

1878

Question 4

Pasteur published Germ Theory and its Application to Medicine

Answer 4

1878

Question 5

Koch identifies the germ that causes blood poisoning and septicaemia

Answer 5

1878

Question 6

Pasteur discovered vaccine for anthrax

Answer 6

1881

Question 7

Pasteur discovered the vaccine for rabies

Answer 7

1882

Question 8

Koch identified the germ that caused tuberculosis

Answer 8

1882

Question 9

The typhoid bacteria is identified

Answer 9

1882

Question 10

The pneumonia bacteria is identified

Answer 10

1886

Question 11

The meningitis bacteria is identified

Answer 11

1887

Question 12

The plague bacteria is identified

Answer 12

1894

Question 13

Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium

Answer 13

1902

Question 14

Salvarsan 606 discovered

Answer 14

1909

Question 15

Salvarsan 606 first tested on humans

Answer 15

1911

Question 16

Chloride used to purify water, delousing stations to stop trench fever

Answer 16

WWI

Question 17

Fleming discovered penicillin

Answer 17

1928

Question 18

Domagk discovered Prontosil

Answer 18

1932

Question 19

Penicillin tested on Albert Alexander

Answer 19

1941

Question 20

Mass production of penicillin

Answer 20

1943