Medicine through time

Flash Cards of important dates in the WJEC medicine course 

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400 BC
Hippocrates
1 of 37
120 AD
Galen
2 of 37
1543
Fabric of the human body
3 of 37
1575
Works on surgery
4 of 37
1628
An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
5 of 37
1798
Jenner's discovery of vaccine
6 of 37
1852
Government made vaccination compulsory
7 of 37
1879
Vaccination for Cholera
8 of 37
1885
Vaccination for Rabies
9 of 37
1927
Vaccination for TB
10 of 37
1963
Vaccination for measles
11 of 37
1861
Discovery of the Germ Theory
12 of 37
1879
Discovery of how vaccination work
13 of 37
1882
Vaccination for anthrax, rabies & cholera
14 of 37
1867
Discovers antiseptic
15 of 37
1887
Steam sterilization
16 of 37
1887
Sterilization of all surgical instruments
17 of 37
1844
Sterilized rubber gloves
18 of 37
1882
Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium for the infection TB
19 of 37
1883
Discovers Cholera
20 of 37
1895
X-ray
21 of 37
1906
ECG
22 of 37
1961
Ultrasound
23 of 37
1972
CT scan
24 of 37
1984
MRI
25 of 37
1928
Discovered Penicilin
26 of 37
1941
First Human Trial
27 of 37
1942
persuaded US government & drug companies to invest $80 million in producing penicillin
28 of 37
1954
First kidney transplant
29 of 37
1967
First heart transplant
30 of 37
1970
Cyclosporin was developed
31 of 37
1987
First lung transplant
32 of 37
1998
First hand transplant
33 of 37
2005
First face transplant
34 of 37
1990
Start of Human Genome Project
35 of 37
1953
Discovery of DNA
36 of 37
2003
End of Human Genome Project
37 of 37

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Card 2

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Galen

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120 AD

Card 3

Front

Fabric of the human body

Back

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Card 4

Front

Works on surgery

Back

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Card 5

Front

An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

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