Dates

Question 1

Hippocrates

Answer 1

400 BC

Question 2

Roman Empire

Answer 2

400 BC - 500 AD

Question 3

162

Answer 3

Galen

Question 4

First hospital

Answer 4

805

Question 5

Ibn Sina - Canon of Medicine

Answer 5

1025

Question 6

Black Death

Answer 6

1347 - 1348

Question 7

Gutenberg’s printing press

Answer 7

1455

Question 8

Martin Luther’s reformation

Answer 8

1517

Question 9

Vesalius

Answer 9

1540s

Question 10

Paré

Answer 10

1570s

Question 11

Harvey

Answer 11

1620s

Question 12

Great Plague

Answer 12

1665

Question 13

Antony Van Leeuwenhoek creates superior microscope

Answer 13

1668

Question 14

Lady Montague - first inoculation in Europe

Answer 14

1721

Question 15

Edward Jenner - smallpox vaccine

Answer 15

1796

Question 16

Humphrey Davis - discovered pain killing properties of nitrous oxide

Answer 16

1799

Question 17

Industrial Revolution

Answer 17

1830s

Question 18

Cholera epidemic

Answer 18

1832

Question 19

Edwin Chadwick - report on public health of people in cities

Answer 19

1842

Question 20

First successful use of ether as a surgical anesthetic

Answer 20

1846

Question 21

Lister discovers chloroform

Answer 21

1847

Question 22

Elizabeth Blackwell is first woman doctor in the USA

Answer 22

1847

Question 23

Semmelweis orders students to wash hands before surgery (only after working in the morgue)

Answer 23

1847

Question 24

First public health act

Answer 24

1848

Question 25

Crimean war

Answer 25

1854

Question 26

John Snow proves link between cholera and pump on Broad street

Answer 26

1854

Question 27

Louis Pasteur - germ theory

Answer 27

1861

Question 28

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is first woman doctor in the UK

Answer 28

1865

Question 29

Second public health act

Answer 29

1875

Question 30

Rivers pollution prevention act

Answer 30

1876

Question 31

Koch discovers TB bacteria

Answer 31

1882

Question 32

Isolation hospitals set up to treat patients with highly infectious diseases

Answer 32

1889

Question 33

William Röentgen discovers x-rays

Answer 33

1895

Question 34

Marie Curie discovers polonium and radium

Answer 34

1901

Question 35

Scientists discover there are different blood groups

Answer 35

1905

Question 36

National health insurance introduced in Britain

Answer 36

1911

Question 37

World War One

Answer 37

1914 - 1918

Question 38

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

Answer 38

1928

Question 39

Domagk discovers prontosil treats blood poisoning

Answer 39

1932

Question 40

Florey, chain and Heately work on producing penicillin as a drug

Answer 40

1937 - 1945

Question 41

Emergency hospital scheme introduced

Answer 41

1939

Question 42

William Beveridge publishes Beveridge report

Answer 42

1942

Question 43

National health service act

Answer 43

1946

Question 44

First day of NHS

Answer 44

1948

Question 45

Description of structure of DNA

Answer 45

1953

Question 46

Contraceptive pill introduced

Answer 46

1961

Question 47

Covid - 19 pandemic

Answer 47

2020