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The Black Death hits Britain
1348
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The First British printing press
1470s
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Vesalius' 'The Fabric of the Human Body'
1543
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Harvey's 'On the Motions of the Heart and Blood'
1628
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Royal Society founded
1660
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Great Plague hits London
1665
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Sydenham's 'Medical Observations'
1676
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Jenner publishes his vaccination findings
1798
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James Simpson discovers chloroform
1847
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The Public Health Act (1)
1848
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Smallpox vaccination made compulsary
1853
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John Snow's 'On the Mode of Communication and Cholera'
1855
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Florence Nightengale's 'Notes on Nursing'
1859
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Pasteur publishes 'The Germ Theory'
1861
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The Public Health Act (2)
1875
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Koch identifies anthrax spores
1876
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Wilhem Rontgen discovers X-rays
1895
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Erlich and Hata discover the FIRST 'Magic Bullet', Salvarsan 606
1909
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Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin
1928
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Domagk Discovers the SECOND 'Magic Bullet', Prontosil
1932
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Florey And Chain purify penicillin
1928
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Government launches diptheria vaccination campaign
1940
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NHS founded
1948
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Watson And Crick discover the structure of DNA
1953
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Government's first polio campaign
1956
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Cigarette ads banned from television
1965
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Christian Barnard completes first heart transplant
1967
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Human Genome Project completed
2003
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Smoking banned in public places
2006-2007
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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1
The Central Board of Health was created and although it was abolished 10 years later, the Act also encouraged local Boards of Health to be set up to appoint a Medical Officer, provide sewers, inspect lodging houses. NOT compulsary.
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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2
Sewerage and drains, water supply, housing and disease to be dealt with. Local authorities had to appoint Medical Officers in charge of public health. Local sanitary inspectors were appointed to look after slaughterhouses. Compulsary.
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1628

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