medicine key dates

Question 1

1345

Answer 1

black death arrives in england

Question 2

1440

Answer 2

printing press invented

Question 3

1536

Answer 3

end of the monasteries in england

Question 4

1543

Answer 4

publication of Vesalius’ “The fabric of the human body”

Question 5

1546

Answer 5

“On Contagion” suggests disease was spread in the air

Question 6

1628

Answer 6

william harvey publishes his book on the blood circulation

Question 7

1665

Answer 7

great plague arrives in britain

Question 8

1660

Answer 8

royal society meet in london for the first time

Question 9

1676

Answer 9

thomas sydenham publishes “observationes medicae”

Question 10

1683

Answer 10

leeuwenhoek developed more powerful microscopes

Question 11

1796-98

Answer 11

jenner discovers smallpox vaccination

Question 12

1803

Answer 12

royal jennerian society establisghed

Question 13

1884

Answer 13

john snow discovers the significance of the broad street pump in causing cholera

Question 14

1859

Answer 14

nightingale publishes “notes on hospitals”

Question 15

1843

Answer 15

william clark uses ether to anaesthetise a patient

Question 16

1847

Answer 16

james simpson discoveres effects of chloroform

Question 17

1854

Answer 17

nightingale treats wounded soldiers in the crimean war

Question 18

1861

Answer 18

pasteur discovers germ theory

Question 19

1865

Answer 19

lister uses carbolic acid in surgery for the first time

Question 20

1875

Answer 20

2nd public health act

Question 21

1882

Answer 21

koch publishes 4 hypotheses discoveres the bacteria causing tuberculosis

Question 22

1878

Answer 22

pasteur begins his work on vaccines

Question 23

1895

Answer 23

roentgen discoveres xrays

Question 24

1898

Answer 24

royal army medical corps founded

Question 25

1909-10

Answer 25

Ehrlich discovers first magic bullet- salvarson 606

Question 26

1901

Answer 26

Landsteiner discovers blood groups

Question 27

1907

Answer 27

FANY founded

Question 28

1914

Answer 28

Hustin discovers sodium citrate stops blood clotting

Question 29

1915

Answer 29

gas masks are first issued

Question 30

1917

Answer 30

first blood depot is used

Question 31

1928

Answer 31

fleming discovers penicillin

Question 32

1932

Answer 32

2nd magic bullet

Question 33

1941

Answer 33

florey & chain develop penicillin into a useable treatment

Question 34

1948

Answer 34

NHS is launched

Question 35

1942

Answer 35

immunisation campaign against diphtheria launched

Question 36

1953

Answer 36

franklin, watson and crick discover DNA structure

Question 37

1956

Answer 37

clean air act passed