Dates in Revolutionary

Question 1

when had elizabeth garret anderson learned french in order to obtain a medical degree?

Answer 1

1870

Question 2

when did elizabeth garret anderson gain membership of the BMA?

Answer 2

1873

Question 3

when was a law passed to allow women to enter medical professions?

Answer 3

1867

Question 4

when did elizabeth garret anderson set up new hospital for women and children?

Answer 4

1872

Question 5

when was the London School of Medicine for Women founded?

Answer 5

1874

Question 6

when did humphry davy discover that nitrous oxide worked as an effective local anaesthetic?

Answer 6

1799

Question 7

when did horace wells use nitrous oxide in a public demonstration to remove a tooth?

Answer 7

1845

Question 8

when was the first public demonstration of ether?

Answer 8

1846

Question 9

when did crawford long discover anaesthetic qualities of ether?

Answer 9

1842

Question 10

when did james simpson discover that chloroform was an effective general anaesthetic?

Answer 10

1847

Question 11

when was chloroform popularised by queen victoria?

Answer 11

1853

Question 12

when did william halstead investigate using cocaine as local anaesthetic?

Answer 12

1884

Question 13

when did ignaz semmelweiss propose hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions?

Answer 13

1847

Question 14

when did ignaz semmelweiss publish ‘Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of childbed fever’ ?

Answer 14

1861

Question 15

when was lister’s operation at King’s College Hospital to promote use of carbolic spray?

Answer 15

1877

Question 16

when did florence nightingale become a nurse?

Answer 16

1849

Question 17

when was ‘notes on nursing’ published?

Answer 17

1859

Question 18

when was Nightingale School of Nursing in St Thomas’ Hospital set up?

Answer 18

1860

Question 19

when was Pasteur asked by a French winemaker to investigate why their wine was going off?

Answer 19

1850s

Question 20

when did louis pasteur publish his work on germ theory?

Answer 20

1861

Question 21

when was pasteur working with his assistant, Charles Chamberland, to try to find a cure for chicken cholera?

Answer 21

1879

Question 22

when was pasteur’s public sheep anthrax experiment?

Answer 22

1881

Question 23

when did koch identify the germ that causes anthrax?

Answer 23

1876

Question 24

when did koch identify the germ that causes septicaemia?

Answer 24

1878

Question 25

when did koch identify the germ that causes TB?

Answer 25

1882

Question 26

when did koch identify the germ that causes cholera?

Answer 26

1883

Question 27

when did Edwin Klebs discover the diptheria germ?

Answer 27

1883

Question 28

when did Emil von Behring produce an antitoxin from blood of animals just recovered from diptheria?

Answer 28

1891

Question 29

when did william roberts carry out a series of experiments to prove that the idea of spontaneous generation was wrong?

Answer 29

1870s

Question 30

when did ehrlich receive the nobel prize in medicine for his research on the immune system?

Answer 30

1908

Question 31

when did ehrlich try to find chemicals which could act as synthetic antibodies?

Answer 31

1889

Question 32

when did ehrlich identify the bacteria which causes syphilis?

Answer 32

1905

Question 33

when did Sahachiro Hata join Ehrlich?

Answer 33

1909

Question 34

when were the first successful human trials of salvarsan 606?

Answer 34

1911

Question 35

when was gerhard domagk awarded the nobel prize for physiology?

Answer 35

1939

Question 36

when did people begin to move from rural to urban areas?

Answer 36

1750

Question 37

when was chadwick's 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain' published?

Answer 37

1842

Question 38

when was first revolutionary-period public health act?

Answer 38

1848

Question 39

when did cholera first arrive in england?

Answer 39

1831

Question 40

when were the cholera epidemics?

Answer 40

- 1831 - killed 50,000 people - 1848 - 1854 - 1866

Question 41

when was the great stink?

Answer 41

summer 1858

Question 42

when was bazalgette appointed to design london's sewer system?

Answer 42

1859

Question 43

when did london's sewer system officially open?

Answer 43

1865

Question 44

when was london's sewer system completed?

Answer 44

1875

Question 45

when was the 2nd public health act?

Answer 45

1875

Question 46

when did the gvt form the Government Board and divide Britain into 'sanitary areas' administered by officers for public health?

Answer 46

1871-2

Question 47

when was the Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act ?

Answer 47

1875

Question 48

when did Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham, persuade city authorities to buy local gas and water companies?

Answer 48

1875

Question 49

when was the Sale of Food and Drugs Act?

Answer 49

1875

Question 50

when was the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act?

Answer 50

1876