Medicine Key Dates 5.0 / 5 based on 4 ratings ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEEdexcel Created by: Katie19942002Created on: 31-05-18 09:53 1250 - 1500 medieval Britain 1 of 40 1348 Black Death arrives 2 of 40 1440 Printing press invented 3 of 40 1500 - 1700 renaissance 4 of 40 1536 dissolution of the monasteries in England 5 of 40 1543 Vesalius' publishes The Fabric of the Human Body 6 of 40 1628 William Harvey publishes book on circulation of blood in the body 7 of 40 1660 Royal Society meet for the first time in London 8 of 40 1665 Great Plague arrives in London 9 of 40 1676 Thomas Sydenham publishes Obeservations Medicae 10 of 40 1700 - 1900 medicine in 18th century to 19th century Britain 11 of 40 1796 - 1798 Edward Jenner discovr smallpox vaccination 12 of 40 1803 Royal Jennerian Society established 13 of 40 1842 William E. Clarke successfully uses ether to anaesthetise a patient 14 of 40 1847 James Simpson discovers effects of chloroform 15 of 40 1854 Florence Nightingale treats wounded soldiers in the crimean war 16 of 40 1854 John Snow discovers the significance of the Broad Street pump in causing cholera 17 of 40 1859 Nightingale publishes Notes on Nursing 18 of 40 1861 Louis Pasteur discover Germ Theory 19 of 40 1865 Joseph lister uses carbolic acid in surgery for the first time 20 of 40 1875 second public health act (mandatory) 21 of 40 1878 Pasteur begins work creating vaccines 22 of 40 1882 Robert Koch publishes his four hypothesis and discover the bacteria causing tuberculosis 23 of 40 1895 William Roentgen discover x-rays 24 of 40 1898 Royal Army Medical Corps founded (RAMC) 25 of 40 1900 - present modern medicine in Britain 26 of 40 1901 Karl Landsteiner discovers blood groups 27 of 40 1907 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) founded 28 of 40 1909 - 1910 Paul Ehrlich discovers the first magic bullet - Salvarsan 606 29 of 40 1914 Albert Hustin discovers that sodium citrate stops blood from clotting 30 of 40 1928 Flemming discovers penicillin 31 of 40 1932 discovery of the second magic bullet - Prontosil 32 of 40 1941 Florey and Chain develop penicillin into a usable treatment 33 of 40 1942 national immunisation campaign against diphtheria launched 34 of 40 1953 Franklin, Watson and Crick discover structure of DNA 35 of 40 1956 Clean Air Act passed 36 of 40 1990 Human genome project began 37 of 40 1914 - 1918 British sector on the Western Front 38 of 40 1915 First gas attacks, prompts issuing of gas masks 39 of 40 1917 First blood depot is used at Battle of Cambrai 40 of 40
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