Key Dates

Question 1

What year does death kills 40% of its population

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

Versalius publishes fabric of the human body, proving Galen wrong

Answer 2

1543

Question 3

Harvey publishes his book, proving that the heart is a pump

Answer 3

1628

Question 4

Great plague kills 100,000 people in London

Answer 4

1665

Question 5

Jenner develops the smallpox vaccination

Answer 5

1796

Question 6

Chadwick publishes his report on the living conditions of the poor

Answer 6

1842

Question 7

Pasteur publishes his germ theory

Answer 7

1861

Question 8

Koch proves germ theory by identifying the anthrax bacterium

Answer 8

1875

Question 9

Fleming discovers penicillin

Answer 9

1928

Question 10

Formation of the NHS

Answer 10

1948

Question 11

Structure of DNA discovered by Crick and Watson

Answer 11

1953

Question 12

Anatomy expert. Proved Galen wrong. Published book in 1543

Answer 12

Andreas Versalius

Question 13

Proved that the heart is a pump (Galen wrong again). Book 1928

Answer 13

William Harvey

Question 14

Smallpox vaccination using cowpox in 1796

Answer 14

Edward Jenner

Question 15

Report on living conditions of the poor, 1842

Answer 15

Edwin Chadwick

Question 16

Linked cholera to dirty water (Broad street pump) 1854

Answer 16

John Snow

Question 17

Germ theory, 1861, proved germs cause disease. Not spontaneous generation

Answer 17

Louis Pasteur

Question 18

Used carbolic acid in surgery to prevent infection (antiseptics) 1865

Answer 18

Joseph Lister

Question 19

Proved germ theory by identifying the anthrax bacterium, 1875

Answer 19

Robert Koch

Question 20

Discovered penicillin in 1929 and published a paper on it

Answer 20

Alexander Fleming

Question 21

Health minister. Overcame opposition to launch NHS 1948

Answer 21

Aneurin Bevan

Question 22

Miasma theory

Answer 22

belief that disease was caused by bad air

Question 23

First public health act is introduced

Answer 23

1848

Question 24

Joseph Bazalgette begins building a series of sewers under London’s streets

Answer 24

1858

Question 25

First liver transplant is carried out in America

Answer 25

1963

Question 26

Guy’s Hospital is founded in London

Answer 26

1724

Question 27

Black death arrived in England

Answer 27

1348

Question 28

Robert Koch’s work on the identification of tuberculosis in publicised in Britain

Answer 28

1882