Medicine dates

Question 1

When was the first successful use of ether?

Answer 1

1846

Question 2

When did James Simpson discover chloroform?

Answer 2

1847

Question 3

When did Ignaz Semmelweiss order his students to wash their hands?

Answer 3

1847

Question 4

When did Elizabeth Blackwell become a doctor?

Answer 4

1847

Question 5

When was the First Public Health Act?

Answer 5

1848

Question 6

When was the Crimean War?

Answer 6

1854

Question 7

When did John Snow connect the water pump to cholera?

Answer 7

1854

Question 8

When did Queen Victoria famously use chloroform?

Answer 8

1857

Question 9

When did Doctos’ Qualifications first have to be regulated?

Answer 9

1858

Question 10

When was germ theory developed?

Answer 10

1861

Question 11

When did Elizabeth Garrett become a doctor?

Answer 11

1865

Question 12

When did Joseph Lister start using carbolic spray?

Answer 12

1867

Question 13

When was the Second Public Health Act?

Answer 13

1875

Question 14

When were the main public health improvements in the UK?

Answer 14

1876

Question 15

When was anthrax identified?

Answer 15

1881

Question 16

When was typhus identified?

Answer 16

1880

Question 17

When was tuberculosis identified?

Answer 17

1882

Question 18

When was cholera identified?

Answer 18

1883

Question 19

When was tetanus identified?

Answer 19

1884

Question 20

When was pneumonia identified?

Answer 20

1886

Question 21

When was meningitis identified?

Answer 21

1887

Question 22

When was plague identfied?

Answer 22

1894

Question 23

When was dysentery identified?

Answer 23

1898

Question 24

When were isolation hospital first set up?

Answer 24

1889

Question 25

When did Rontgen discover x rays?

Answer 25

1895

Question 26

When did Marie Curie discover radioactive elements?

Answer 26

1895

Question 27

When was the first 100% successful blood transfusion?

Answer 27

1901

Question 28

When was salvarsan 606 invented?

Answer 28

1905

Question 29

When was national health insurance introduced?

Answer 29

1911

Question 30

When was WWI and the first skin grafts?

Answer 30

1914 - 1918

Question 31

When did Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 31

1928

Question 32

When did Domagk discover prontosil?

Answer 32

1932

Question 33

When did Florey, Chain and Heatley work on producing penicillin?

Answer 33

1937 - 1945

Question 34

When were emergency hospital schemes introduced?

Answer 34

1939

Question 35

When was the Beveridge report published?

Answer 35

1942

Question 36

When did Edwin Chadwick report on the state of health?

Answer 36

1842