Key dates-Medicine

Question 1

When was the Black Death?

Answer 1

1347-1348

Question 2

When was The Printing Press invented?

Answer 2

1455

Question 3

When did Vesalius write “The Fabric of the Body”?

Answer 3

1543

Question 4

When was the Great Plague and how many people died?

Answer 4

1665 and almost 69,000

Question 5

When did Jenner invent vaccinations to treat smallpox?

Answer 5

1796

Question 6

When were vaccinations made compulsory?

Answer 6

1852

Question 7

When did Davy invent Laughing Gas?

Answer 7

1799

Question 8

When did Simpson discover Chloroform?

Answer 8

1847

Question 9

When was the First Public Health Act

Answer 9

1848

Question 10

When did Snow prove the link between the Cholera epidemic and the water pump in Broad Street?

Answer 10

1854

Question 11

When did Pasteur discover Germ Theory?

Answer 11

1861

Question 12

When did Lister first use Carbolic Spray?

Answer 12

1867

Question 13

When did Koch discover the bacteria that causes anthrax?

Answer 13

1881

Question 14

When did Rontgen discover X-rays?

Answer 14

1895

Question 15

When were Blood groups discovered?

Answer 15

1901

Question 16

When did Ehrlich discover magic bullets?

Answer 16

1905

Question 17

When was the NHS inroduced?

Answer 17

1911

Question 18

When was WW1

Answer 18

1914-18

Question 19

When did Flemming discover penicillin?

Answer 19

1928

Question 20

When did Florey, chain and Heatly work on Penicillin

Answer 20

1928

Question 21

When was the Beveridge Report?

Answer 21

1942

Question 22

When was the first day of the NHS?

Answer 22

1948

Question 23

When was the discovery of the structure of DNA

Answer 23

1953