Medicine Dates 5.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEEdexcel Created by: [email protected]Created on: 26-05-18 17:27 Black death arrives in Britain 1348 1 of 52 Printing press invented 1440 2 of 52 Closing sown of the monasteries in England 1536 3 of 52 Publication of Versailius' 'The Fabric of the Human Body' 1543 4 of 52 William Harvey publishes his book on the circulation of the blood 1628 5 of 52 Royal society meet in London for the first time 1660 6 of 52 Great Plague arrives in Britain 1665 7 of 52 Thomas Sydenham publishes 'Observations Medica', Sydenham theorised that illness was caused by external factors rather than the four humours 1676 8 of 52 Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination 1796-98 9 of 52 William Clarke successfully uses ether to anaesthetise a patient 1842 10 of 52 James Simpson discovers the effects of chloroform 1847 11 of 52 Nightingale treats wounded soldiers in the Crimean War, John Snow discovers the significance of the Broad Street pump in causing cholera 1854 12 of 52 Nightingale publishes 'Notes on Hospitals' 1859 13 of 52 Pasteur discovers germ theory 1861 14 of 52 Joseph Lister uses carbolic acid in surgeries for the first time 1865 15 of 52 Second public health act 1875 16 of 52 Pasteur begins his work creating vaccinations 1878 17 of 52 Koch publishes his four hypotheses, and discovers the bacteria causing tuberculosis 1882 18 of 52 William Roentgen discovers x-rays 1895 19 of 52 RAMC is founded 1898 20 of 52 Karl Landsteiner discovers blood groups 1901 21 of 52 FANY is founded 1907 22 of 52 Paul Ehrlich discovers the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606 1909-10 23 of 52 Albert Hustin discovers that sodium cistrate stops blood from clotting 1914 24 of 52 Fist gas attacks + gas masks, the Brodie Helmet being introduced 1915 25 of 52 First blood depot is used (at the Battle of Cambria) 1917 26 of 52 Fleming discovers penicillin 1928 27 of 52 Discovery of the second magic bullet, Prontosil 1932 28 of 52 Florey and Chain develop penicillin into a unsable treatment 1941 29 of 52 National immunisation campaign against diphtheria launched 1942 30 of 52 NHS is launched 1948 31 of 52 Franklin, Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA 1953 32 of 52 Clean air act passed, Jonas Stalk introduced the vaccination for polio to the UK 1956 33 of 52 Human genome project began 1990 34 of 52 The royal society received its royal charter from Charles 2nd 1662 35 of 52 The royal society published their scientific journal called 'Philosophical Transactions' 1665 36 of 52 The government makes inoculation a crime 1840 37 of 52 The biggest cholera outbreak where over 53,000 died in England and Wales 1848-49 38 of 52 Smog in London 1952 39 of 52 Illegal to smoke in all enclosed workplaces 2007 40 of 52 Dorothy Hodgkin maps the chemical structure of penicillin 1945 41 of 52 Illegal to smoke in cars carrying children under the age of 18 2015 42 of 52 The first battle of Ypres 1914 (12th October- 11th November) 43 of 52 The second battle of Ypres 1915 (22nd April- 25th May) 44 of 52 The battle of the Somme 1916 (July-December) 45 of 52 The battle of Arras 1917 (April-May) 46 of 52 The third battle of Ypres 1917 (July-November) 47 of 52 The battle of Cambrai 1917 48 of 52 British Red Cross raised enough money to buy 512 ambulance wagons October 1914 49 of 52 Creation of the underground hospital at Arras November 1916 50 of 52 The Thomas Splint was introduced to the front line 1916 51 of 52 Rous and Turner added citrate glucose solution to blood meaning it could be stored up to four weeks 1916 52 of 52
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