Dates - Health and the People

Question 1

c1230

Answer 1

Compendium Medicine written by Gilbert Eagle

Question 2

1348

Answer 2

Black Death arrives in England

Question 3

1628

Answer 3

William Harvey proves circulation of blood

Question 4

1724

Answer 4

Guys Hospital Founded

Question 5

1798

Answer 5

Edward Jenner publishes work done in 1976 using cowpox as protection for smallpox

Question 6

1847

Answer 6

James Simpson uses chloroform as an anaesthetic

Question 7

1848

Answer 7

First public health act

Question 8

1858

Answer 8

Joseph Bazalgette begins building network of sewers in London

Question 9

1867

Answer 9

Joseph Lister publishes description of carbonic antiseptic in surgery

Question 10

1882

Answer 10

Robert Koch’s work on tuberculosis is publicised in Britain

Question 11

1906

Answer 11

First liberal social reforms - free school meals for poorest children, free medical checks and free treatment

Question 12

1928

Answer 12

Alexander Fleming discovers that penicillin kills bacteria

Question 13

1948

Answer 13

NHS comes into being

Question 14

1953

Answer 14

Francis crick and James Watson publish their research on structure of DNA

Question 15

1963

Answer 15

First liver transplant carried our in America

Question 16

2003

Answer 16

Human genome project declared complete

Question 17

1842

Answer 17

Chadwick report

Question 18

1854

Answer 18

Cholera outbreak in London where Dr John Snow took pump handle off

Question 19

1858

Answer 19

The Great Stink

Question 20

1867

Answer 20

Working class men given the vote

Question 21

1875

Answer 21

Second public health act

Question 22

1876

Answer 22

Koch identifies microbe responsible for Anthrax.
Also identified microbe responsible for:
1882 Tuberculosis
1884 Cholera

Question 23

1879

Answer 23

Surgeon William Cheyne translated Kocj’s work

Question 24

1890

Answer 24

Emil Behring showed weakened diphtheria germs could produce an antitoxin

Question 25

1866

Answer 25

The Cattle Plague

Question 26

1864

Answer 26

Surgeon Thomas Wells first suggested infection was non chemical and referred to Pasteur's discoveries

Question 27

1865

Answer 27

Lister mended Jamie Greenlees leg fracture

Question 28

1848

Answer 28

Hannah Greener dies of overdoes of chloroform in toenail operation

Question 29

1853

Answer 29

Queen Victoria used anaesthetics for childbirth

Question 30

1853

Answer 30

British Government make smallpox vaccination compulsory

Question 31

1918

Answer 31

Local councils had to provide health visitors, day nurseries and clinics for pregnant women

Question 32

1930

Answer 32

Slum clearance begun

Question 33

1904

Answer 33

Government special committee releases report "Physical deterioration of the people"

Question 34

1899

Answer 34

Boer war recruitment campaign. 40% men unfit to join

Question 35

1895

Answer 35

Xrays discovered

Question 36

1917

Answer 36

Queens hospital in Kent opened treat facial injuries

Question 37

1900

Answer 37

Karl Landsteiner discovers blood groups

Question 38

1914

Answer 38

Albert Hustin discovers sodium citrate stops bloods clotting

Question 39

1938

Answer 39

British national blood Transfusion Service opened