Medicine through time key dates
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- MEDICINE THROUGH TIME KEY IDEAS
- 2nd century
- Galen believes in the theory of opposites and writes over 350 books on his ideas.
- 1348
- Black Death
- People believed god sent the plague
- Flaggelence
- Miasma
- BurningBarrels of Tar
- Treatments included fasting and praying
- Theory of opposites
- 4 humours
- Theory of opposites
- People believed god sent the plague
- Black Death
- 1548
- Vesalius promotes enquiring spirit
- Discovers faults with Galens work, including how the jaw is only one bone
- 'The fabric of the human body'
- Vesalius promotes enquiring spirit
- 1616
- William Harvey
- Disproved Galens theory of the blood being used up
- Experimented mice using rods
- Disproved Galens theory of the blood being used up
- William Harvey
- 1798
- Jenner proved than inoculating with cowpox prevents smallpox
- 1831
- First cholera epidemic
- 1826
- Listers multilense microscope
- 1842
- Chawick produces the book the sanitary conditions of the labouring population.
- 1847
- Semmelwiss makes midwifes wash their hands cutting death rates
- Massive Cholera epidemic
- Jon Snow proves diseases water born in 1854
- 2nd century
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