MEDICINE - Key Dates

Question 1

Black death arrives in england

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

Printing press invented

Answer 2

1440

Question 3

Aprrox. 1000 “hospitals” in england

Answer 3

1500

Question 4

Dissolution of the monasteries

Answer 4

1536

Question 5

William Harvey releases book on blood circulation

Answer 5

1628

Question 6

Andreas Vesalius releases book on human body

Answer 6

1543

Question 7

First Royal Society Meeting

Answer 7

1660

Question 8

The great plague

Answer 8

1665

Question 9

Thomas Sydenham publishes book

Answer 9

1676

Question 10

Powerful microscopes invented

Answer 10

1665 + 1683

Question 11

Smallpox vaccines discovered by Edward Jenner

Answer 11

1796-96

Question 12

Royal Jennerian Society established

Answer 12

1803

Question 13

Ether used as anaesthetic

Answer 13

1842

Question 14

James Simpson discovers chloroform

Answer 14

1847

Question 15

Crimean War

Answer 15

1854 - 56

Question 16

John Snow discovers choleras is spread in water

Answer 16

1854

Question 17

The great stink

Answer 17

1858

Question 18

Florence Nightingale publishes book notes on hospital hygiene

Answer 18

1859

Question 19

Louis pasteur publishes germ theory

Answer 19

1861

Question 20

Joseph Lister uses Carbolic acid in surgery

Answer 20

1865

Question 21

Public Health Act passed

Answer 21

1875

Question 22

Pasteur works on vaccines for anthrax and chicken cholera and rabies.

Answer 22

1878

Question 23

Robert Koch publishes his 4 hypthesis

Answer 23

1882

Question 24

Wilhelm Roentgen discovers Xrays

Answer 24

1895

Question 25

Karl Landsteiner discovers blood groups

Answer 25

1901

Question 26

Magic Bullet 1: Salvarsan 606 discovered

Answer 26

1909-10

Question 27

Sodium Citrate discovered to stop blood clotting

Answer 27

1914

Question 28

Fleming discovers penicillin

Answer 28

1928

Question 29

Magic Bullet 2: Prontosil

Answer 29

1932

Question 30

Florey and Chain develop penicillin into a usable drug

Answer 30

1941

Question 31

NHS launched

Answer 31

1948

Question 32

Structure of DNA discovered

Answer 32

1953

Question 33

Clean air act passed

Answer 33

1956

Question 34

Human Genome Project started

Answer 34

1990

Question 35

WW1

Answer 35

1914-18

Question 36

First Battle Of Ypres,

Answer 36

(Oct - Nov) 1914

Question 37

First use of gas attacks (by Germans) at the 2nd battle of Ypres

Answer 37

1915 (Apr-May)

Question 38

Thomas Splint used in war

Answer 38

Dec 1915

Question 39

Battle of the Somme - high casualties, tanks

Answer 39

Jul-Nov 1916

Question 40

Third Battle of Ypres - Severe weather conditions

Answer 40

Jul-Nov 1917

Question 41

Battle of Arras - Use of an underground military hospital

Answer 41

Apr May 1917

Question 42

Blood Depots used in battle of Cambrai

Answer 42

Nov-Dec 1917

Question 43

CAT Scans created

Answer 43

1972

Question 44

ENDOSCOPE probes developed to look inside human bodies

Answer 44

1976

Question 45

MRI Scans developed

Answer 45

1987

Question 46

Vaccines made publicly available for free

Answer 46

1946-69