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129 AD

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Galen born

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460 BC

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Hippocrates born

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1518

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College of physicians founded by Henry VIII

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1300

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Dissection of bodies began

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1348

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Black Death

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1660

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The royal society

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14th century

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Renaissance

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1527

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Paracelsus started lecturing and questioning Galen and burning one of his books and rejecting 4 humours invited anyone including barber-surgeons

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1665

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Great plague

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1666

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Great fire of London

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1454

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Johann Gutenberg introduced printing to Europe accelerate rate of process in medicine

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1514

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Vesalius born. did dissections and professor at Padua.

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1543

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Vesalius wrote ‘The Fabric Of The Human Body’

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1510

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Pare born, barber-surgeon. Created ligatures instead of cauterisation (which involved a hot iron) to prevent blood loss. Became surgeon to King of France

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1578

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William Harvey born. Studied medicine and anatomy at Padua. Became royal physician to James 1 and Charles 1. Harvey disproved Galen’s theory that blood was not consumed by body, but circulated. Found diff between arteries and veins

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18th century

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Lady montagu introduces innoculation from Turkey to Britain

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1796

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Jenner tests his innoculation theory using cowpox to prevent smallpox on a boy called James Phipps

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1853

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Vaccination became compulsory for infants

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1854

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Crimean war

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1849

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Florence nightingale studies in Europe, brings new discipline to job and improved hygiene in hospital wards. She reduced death rate to only 2% upon arriving at the hospital

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1831

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Cholera In Britain

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1842

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Chadwick report on sanitary conditions of the working population of Britain. To improve public health

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1848

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First public health act

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1895

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1896
Baquerel discovers radioactivity
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1900
Blood groups discovered
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1928
Pencillin discovered by Fleming when he found that bacteria did now grow around the mould as the mould killed bacteria. Try called it penicillin
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1951
First kidney transplant
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1953
Structure of DNA identified by Watson and Crick
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By 1900
64000 trained nurses in Britain
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1854
Mary Seacole came to England to volunteer as a nurse in Crimean war, but got rejected but funded her own way there. She built the British Hotel and nursed soldiers on battlefield
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1857
Pasteur - germ theory. Disproved spontaneous generation and miasma and proved that germs in the air caused disease
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18th century
invents microscopes
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1882
Koch identifies TB microbe, linking disease to a specific microbe by using a dying technique to colour microbes to view them
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1875
Koch discovered anthrax spores
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1882/1883
Koch identified bacteria of tuberculosis and then cholera
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1877
Pasteur found the vaccine for chicken cholera in the same way as Jenner did with cowpox
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1881
Pasteur produced an attenuated version of the anthrax spore which made a sheep immune
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1885
Pasteur discovered rabies vaccine
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1909
The first magic bullet (antibodies that attacked specific microbes) was found by Ehrlich to cute syphilis. This targeted the disease without harming other cells in the body. Compound 606 worked and in 1911 was used on humans
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1938 and 1940
Floreys team worked on purifying penicillin and Ernest chain devised the freeze drying technique which was important. They went to America and in 1944 they mass produced penicillin for the military doctors in WW2
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1513
Eucharius Rosslin wrote the earliest surviving book on midwifery
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1725
First British school of midwifery opened
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1920's
Family planning was pioneered by Marie Stopes in the UK and Margaret Sanger in the USA
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1960's
Contraceptive pills avaliable fuelling the sexual revolution
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1977
IVF treatment first done for a human
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1854
The connection between cholera and dirty water was discovered by John Snow
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1871
The government responded to the proposals of Medical Officer Of Health who divided the country into sanitary areas administered by medical officers of health
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1899
The boer war broke out and 40% of men were unfit to fight due to bad health and unhealthy diets. Like Rome, Britain realised it needed a healthy population to have an efficient army
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1906
Free school meals
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1907
School medical inspections
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1812
Margaret Bulkley qualified as a surgeon in Edinburgh university and served at the battle of Waterloo as assistant surgeon
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1870
Elizabeth Garret Anderson got her medical degree at the University of Paris
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1874
Sophia Jex-Blake co founded London School Of Medicine for Women
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1942
Beveridge report which called for state provision of social security. He argues that people should have the right to be free from disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.
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1948
Aneurin Bevan made the NHS
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1988
Free vaccination of MMR
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Late 1900
Human Genome Project identified 20000-25000 different genes so now doctors can find out about genetic conditions and diagnose and treat conditions more effectively
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1973
MRI scanner to visualise inside of body

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