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When was Europe's first medical school set up?
c. 900
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When did the black death arrive in England?
1348
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When was the printing press invented?
c. 1440
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When was the first microscope invented?
1590
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When was the Royal Society set up?
1662
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When did the great plague occur in London?
1665
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When was the Great Fire of London?
1666
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When did Edward Jenner publish his discovery of a vaccination against smallpox?
1798
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When was the smallpox vaccine made compulsory?
1852
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When did Florence Nightingale found the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses?
1860
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When did Louis Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?
1861
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When did Robert Koch prove that a specific micro-organism causes a specific human disease?
1878
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When did Louis Pasteur discovered the second vaccination to prevent chicken cholera?
1879
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When did WW1 start?
1914
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When did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
1928
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When did WW2 begin?
1939
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When did WW2 end?
1945
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When did the NHS open in Britain?
1948
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When was DNA discovered?
1953
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Who was Hippocrates?
An Ancient Greek doctor who came up with the theory of the four humours
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Who was Galen?
A Greek doctor who built on the ideas of Hippocrates on treating illness. His ideas were supported by the Catholic church
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Who was Roger Bacon?
A 13th century priest who encouraged doctors to do their own research rather than learning from books and ideas from ancient writers such as Galen. He was imprisoned for heresy
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Who was Edward Jenner?
A country doctor who discovered a vaccine for smallpox
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Who was Paul Ehrlich?
Came up with the idea of Magic Bullets
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Who was Robert Koch?
A German microbiologist who invented a way of staining bacteria so it was easier to see
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Who was Joseph Lister?
He developed a microscope that magnified 1000 times without distortion
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Who was Florence Nightingale?
She mainly cleaned hospitals and improved the training of nurses
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Who was Alexander Fleming?
He discovered penicillin in 1928 and published his results in 1929
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Who is Howard Florey?
Continued the work on Fleming
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When was the first record of an autopsy?
1286
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When did John Arderne write his book?
1350
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What was John Arderne's book called?
The Practice of Surgery
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What was the ointment that John Arderne created include?
Hemlock, Opium and Henbane
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When did Ambroise Pare become an army surgeon?
1536
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When did Andreas Versalius write his book?
1543
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What was Andreas Versalius's book called?
The Fabric of the human body
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When did Pare write his book?
1575
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What was Pare's book called?
Works on Surgery
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When did John Hunter set up his own anatomy school in London?
1764
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When did Humphrey Davy discover the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
1799
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When was the Royal College of Surgeons set up in London?
1800
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When did James Simpson discover the anaesthetic properties of chloroform?
1847
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When did Joseph Lister Jr discover the use of carbolic spray?
1867
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When were all instruments steam-sterilised when conducting surgery's?
1887
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When was the first kidney transplant performed?
1952
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When was the first heart pacemaker developed?
1961
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Who became the first test tube baby in 1978?
Louise Brown
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Who was William Harvey?
A doctor who challenged the work of Galen
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Who was Ambroise Pare?
An army surgeon who used ligatures to seal wounds
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Who was Andreas Vesalius?
A professor of surgery who carried out his own dissections and challenged Galen's work
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Who was Humphrey Davy?
The first person to use nitrous oxide as an anaesthetic
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Who was Robert Liston?
He successfully amputated a leg using ether
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Who was James Simpson?
He discovered that chloroform was an effective anaesthetic
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Who was Harold Gillies?
A surgeon during WW1 who developed ground-breaking technique's for treating facial injury's
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