Long 19th and 20th Century Key Dates 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEOCR Created by: blatantlymagicCreated on: 20-04-14 14:04 1798 Jenner's smallpox vaccination 1 of 24 1799 Humphry Davy discovers laughing gas as an anaesthetic 2 of 24 1800 Liston discovers ether as an anaesthetic 3 of 24 1818 Blundell performed the first human blood transfusion 4 of 24 1834 Chadwick published the Poor Law report 5 of 24 1847 Semmelweis told doctors to wash their hands AND Simpson discovers chloroform as an anaesthetic 6 of 24 1848 Hannah Greener died in an operation to remove her toenail after an overdose of chloroform 7 of 24 1854 Nightingale and Seacole went to nurse in Crimea AND Snow linked cholera to the Broad Street Pump 8 of 24 1861 Pasteur's Germ Theory 9 of 24 1865 Octavia Hill sets up houses for the poor 10 of 24 1867 Lister uses carbolic spray as an antiseptic 11 of 24 1872 Koch links germs to disease 12 of 24 1876 Garrett becomes the first British female doctor 13 of 24 1889 Halsted invents rubber gloves for surgery 14 of 24 1895 Rontgen invents x-rays 15 of 24 1901 Landsteiner discovers blood groups 16 of 24 1905 Ehrlich creates Salvarsan 606 (the first magic bullet) to cure syphilis 17 of 24 1911 Lloyd George (prime minister) introduces pensions and public health reforms 18 of 24 1928 Fleming discovers penicillin 19 of 24 1932 Domagk makes the second magic bullet (Prontosil) to cure blood poisoning 20 of 24 1939 Florey and Chain experiment with penicillin and decide to get it mass produced 21 of 24 1942 Beveridge wrote the Beveridge Report to persuade the idea of the NHS 22 of 24 1948 Bevan started the NHS 23 of 24 1967 Barnard performed the first heart transplant 24 of 24
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