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Major Events Flashcards

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The Theory of the Four Humours

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Ancient Greece and Rome

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Roman England

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50AD - 410AD

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The Black Death

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1348

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4
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The Medical Renaissance

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15th and 16th Century

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5
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Royal Society Started

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1660

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6
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The Great Plague

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1665

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Industrialisation and Town Growth

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1790s onwards

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Smallpox Vaccination Discovered (Jenner)

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1790s

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Cholera Epidemics

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1830s onwards

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Public Health Act 1

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1848

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Compulsary Vaccination

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1852

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12
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Germ Theory Published (Pasteur)

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1861

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13
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Sewer Systems Built (Bazalgette)

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1860s onwards

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Hospitals Improved (Nightingale)

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1860s onwards

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Vaccinations developed (Pasteur and Koch)

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1870s onwards

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Public Health Act 2

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1875

17
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Pharmaceutical Industry Developed

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Late 1800s onwards

18
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X-Rays Discovered

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1895

19
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First Magic Bullet - Salvarsan 606

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1909

20
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Second Magic Bullet - Prontosil

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1932

21
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Liberal Welfare Reforms

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Early 1900s

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Antibiotics Discovered and Developed (Fleming, Florey, Chain)

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1928 (WW2)

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NHS Started (Bevan)

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1948

24
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Structure of DNA discovered (Watson and Crick)

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1953

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Development of High-Tech Medicine (Radiotherapy, Scans, Dialysis)

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Through 20th/21st Centuries

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Government more involved in Healthcare (Health Education, Funding of NHS)

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Through 20th/21st Centuries

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