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C2600BC

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Imhotep - apparently first physician devoid of mgical thinking (in Ancient Egypt)

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C1800BC

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Code of Hammurabi - ancient Babylonian code of practice for surgeons

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C1500BC

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Edwin Smith papyrus - first medical text devoid of magical thinking

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C5th BC

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Diogenes of Apollonia - irreducibility (nothing comes from nothing)
Herodotus described multiple types of doctors, and specialisation to some degree

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420BC

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Hippocrates

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250BC

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Herophilus’ systematic dissections of the human body; beleived to have dissected over 600 bodies
Is often quoted by Galen
Devised method to measure pulse using water-clock

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420BC

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Praxagorus distinguishes between veins and arteries

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250BC

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Erasistratus’ dissection of the brain
Founds school of anatomy with Herophilus
Idea of the pneuma

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50AD

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De Materia Medica
Celsus’ medical encyclopedia
(but Library of Alexandria destroyed 48)

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1st-2ndCAD

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Time of Galen

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400AD

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First hospital in Christendom, in Rome

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1070s

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Arabic texts translated into Greek

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1084

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First documented hospital in england i Canterbury

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1200AD

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250 hospitalia i England by 1200AD

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1123

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St Bartholomew’s hospital founded

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1302

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University of Bologna dissections begin

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Mid-1300s

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Black death

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C15th

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printing revolution

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C16th

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Santorio Santorio input/output

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1543

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Vesalius’ ‘On the fabric of the human body’

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1665

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Robert Hooke’s ‘Micrographia’ coins term ‘cell’

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Late C17th

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Microscope

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C18th

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John Hunter, universities empirical stress
Mid C18th - Morgagni, ‘on the seats and causes of disease’ organ pathology
Late C18th-early C19th Bichat tissue pathology
Broussais irritation

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1789-99

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French Revolution

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C19th
First full-time scientists employed in Germany
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1824
Institute of Chemistry founded in Geissen by von Liebeg
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1828
Wohler - urea synthesis
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1830
Joseph Lister combines microscope lenses to reduce blurring
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1833
Term 'scientist' coined in analogy to artist
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1840s
Chloroform, nitrous oxide, and ether discovered
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1846
first public surgery under anaesthesia
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1809
McDowell - first successful removal of ovarian tumour
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1854
John Snow traces cholera outbreak to a water pump
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1855
Virchow's Cellula e cellula
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1855
British Medical Association developed (from 1832 Provincial and Medical Surgical Association)
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1832
Provincial and Medical Surgical Association founded - to promote sharing of knowledge between medics
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Edinburgh Medical Society
1737 - encouraging peer-reviewing
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Royal College of Physicians
1518 | 1860 - examinations introduced
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Barber-Surgeons company
1745
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Royal College of Surgeons
1800
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Society of Apocatheries
1617
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Apothecaries Act
1815
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1858
British Medical Act
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1860s
Joseph Lister introduces carbolic acid
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1865
Institute of Physiology, Leipzig
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1871
Three-way microscope invented
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1882; 1884
Robert Koch discovers TB and Cholera bactillus; uses camera in microscopy
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1885
Louis Pasteur produces rabies vaccine
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1891
Robert Koch establishes Berlin's Centre for Infectious Diseases; develops Four Postulates
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1895
X-Rays discovered
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1900
Blood types discovered
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1922
Insulin synthesised
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1924
Ultracentrifuge allows large-scale analysis of samples
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1927
Components of DNA identified
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1942
Bevridge Report promoted reforms to welfare system in UK
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1928
Alexander Fleming, pencillin
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1931
Electron microscope
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1935
Portable pH meter
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1936
Radiosodium to treat leukaemia
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1951
Parsons - sick role
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1940
Half price milk to mothers in UK
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1938
Emergency Hospital Service in UK
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NHS
1948
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1857
Gregor Mendel, basis of DNA work (but monk - dismissed?)
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1850s
Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Man
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1910s USA
Hull House, research into toxicology and public health
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1953
Double helix of DNA discovered

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