Dates

Question 1

Black Death

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

Printing press invented

Answer 2

1440

Question 3

Dissolution of monasteries

Answer 3

1536

Question 4

Publication of vesalius’ “the fabric of the human body”

Answer 4

1543

Question 5

William Harvey published book on circulation of the blood

Answer 5

1628

Question 6

Great plague

Answer 6

1665

Question 7

Thomas Sydenham publishes “observationes Medicae”

Answer 7

1676

Question 8

Edward Jenner discovers smallpox vaccination

Answer 8

1796-98

Question 9

William Clarke successfully uses ether to anaesthetise a patient

Answer 9

1842

Question 10

James Simpson discovers effects of chloroform

Answer 10

1847

Question 11

Florence nightingale treats wounded soldiers in Crimean war

Answer 11

1854

Question 12

John snow discovers the significance of the board street pump in causing cholera

Answer 12

1854

Question 13

Nightingale publishes “notes on hopsitals”

Answer 13

1859

Question 14

Louis Pasteur discovers germ theory

Answer 14

1861

Question 15

Joseph lister uses carbolic acid in surgeries for the first time

Answer 15

1865

Question 16

Second public health act

Answer 16

1875

Question 17

Pasteur begins work creating vaccinations

Answer 17

1878

Question 18

Robert koch publishes his four hypotheses,and discovers bacteria causing tuberculosis

Answer 18

1882

Question 19

William roentgen discovers x-rays

Answer 19

1895

Question 20

Royal army medical corps (RAMC) founded

Answer 20

1898

Question 21

First aid nursing yeomanry (FANY) founded

Answer 21

1907

Question 22

Paul ehrlich discovers first magic bullet,Salvarsan 606

Answer 22

1909-10

Question 23

Albert hustin discovers that sodium citrate stops blood from clotting

Answer 23

1914

Question 24

First World War

Answer 24

1914-18

Question 25

First gas attacks,prompts issuing of gas masks

Answer 25

1915

Question 26

Fleming discovers penicillin

Answer 26

1928

Question 27

Discovery of the second magic bullet,prontosil

Answer 27

1932

Question 28

Florey and chain develop penicillin into a usable treatment

Answer 28

1941

Question 29

NHS is launched

Answer 29

1948

Question 30

Clean air act passed

Answer 30

1956

Question 31

Franklin,Watson and crick discover the structure of dna

Answer 31

1953

Question 32

Human genome project began

Answer 32

1990