Key Medicine dates 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEOCR Created by: ajcoolatboo1Created on: 25-03-15 18:45 300 BC Human dissection allowed in Greece 1 of 43 162 AD Galen arrived in Rome 2 of 43 410 AD Collapse of Roman Empire 3 of 43 12th Century Lost Ancient Greek & Roman medical books reach Europe 4 of 43 1347 Black Death in Italy 5 of 43 1348 Black death in Britain 6 of 43 1543 Fabric of Human body published 7 of 43 1660 Royal Society set up 8 of 43 1665 Great Plague 9 of 43 1798 Smallpox vaccine experiments published 10 of 43 1831-2 Cholera epidemic - 32,000 killed 11 of 43 1842 Chadwick published sanitary report 12 of 43 1846 John Warren used Ether successfully 13 of 43 1847 James Simpson discovered Chloroform 14 of 43 1848-9 Public Health Act & Second Chloera epidemic (64,000) 15 of 43 1852 Smallpox made compulsory 16 of 43 1853-4 John Snow found cholera was water-bourne 17 of 43 1854-6 The Crimean War - Florence Nightingale career started 18 of 43 1857 Chloroform used Queen Victoria's birth 19 of 43 1858 Great stink - Bazalgette's Sewers 20 of 43 1860 Florence Nightingale published Notes for Nursing 21 of 43 1861 Germ Theory published 22 of 43 1864 Germ Theory proved 23 of 43 1867 Carbolic acid (spray by Lister) & Reform Act ( working class men got vote) 24 of 43 1875 Public Health act , Artisans Dwellings Act 25 of 43 1875-8 Anthrax studied by Koch 26 of 43 1876 Women take medical degrees 27 of 43 1879 Chicken cholera - Pasteur 28 of 43 1899 Seebohm Rowntree - report on poverty in York (28% in squalor) 29 of 43 1899-1902 Boer War - 38% volunteers unfit 30 of 43 1901 Blood groups - Karl Landsteiner 31 of 43 1906 School Meals & Magic bullet (Ehrlich) 32 of 43 1909 Old age pensions & back to back houses banned 33 of 43 1911 National Insurance act 34 of 43 1915 Sodium citrate - blood clotting 35 of 43 1916 Citrus glucose - blood storage 36 of 43 1928 Fleming discovered penicillin 37 of 43 1937 Florey & Chain read article on penicillin 38 of 43 1941 Florey, Chain & Heatley proved it worked on humans 39 of 43 1948 NHS set up 40 of 43 1956 Clean air act 41 of 43 1967 First heart transplant 42 of 43 1979 Elimination of smallpox 43 of 43
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