Medicine Through Time - Key Dates Flashcards
(44 cards)
1
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Medieval
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c. 1250 - 1500
2
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Renaissance
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c. 1500 - 1750
3
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Industrial Revolution
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c. 1750 - 1900
4
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Modern
A
1900 - present
5
Q
WWI
A
1914 - 18
6
Q
Hippocrates
A
400 Bc
7
Q
Galen
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162 AD
8
Q
Vesalius
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1540s
9
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Black Death
A
1348
10
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Printing Press
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1440
11
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Royal society
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1660
12
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William Harvey
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1620s
13
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Thomas Syndanham
A
1660s-70s
14
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‘Observations of Medicae’
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1676
15
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Great Plague
A
1665
16
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Edward Jenner
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1796
17
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Microscope invented
A
1677
18
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Robert Koch
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1880s
19
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Louis Pasteur
A
1879
20
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Compulsory small pox vaccination
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1852
21
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John Snow
A
1854
22
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Edwin Chadwick’s Report
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1842
23
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The Great Stink
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1858
24
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1st Cholera epidemic
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1831
25
2nd Cholera epidemic
1848
26
First public health act
1848
27
3rd Cholera epidemic
1854
28
Germ Theory - Louis Pasteur
1862
29
Bazalgette's sewers
1866
30
Working class men get the vote
1867
31
2nd public health act
1875
32
Crimean war
1854
33
Chloroform - James Simpson
1847
34
Ether - William Clark
1846
35
Laughing gas - Humphrey Davy
1795
36
Queen Victoria popularised chloroform
1853
37
Joseph Lister
1867
38
Mary Seacole British hospital
1855
39
Discovery of x-rays
1895
40
First image of DNA
1951
41
Discovery of DNA
1953
42
Alexander Flemming - Penicillin
1928
43
Penicillin developed to usable drug
1940
44
Dissolution of the monasteries
1536
