Medicine through time: Important dates 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEEdexcel Created by: munchlee2002Created on: 04-10-17 19:12 What happened in 1348? The black death hits Britain 1 of 28 What happened in the 1470s? First british printing press 2 of 28 What happened in 1543? Vesalius wrote 'The Fabric of the Human Body' 3 of 28 What happened in 1628? William Harvey wrote 'On the Motions of the Heart and blood' 4 of 28 What happened in 1660? Royal Society founded 5 of 28 What happened in 1665? Great Plague hits London 6 of 28 What happened in 1676? Thomas Sydenham's 'Medicals Observations' 7 of 28 What happened in 1798? Jenner publishes his vaccination findings 8 of 28 What happened in 1847? James Simpson discovers Chloroform? 9 of 28 What happened in 1853? Smallpox vaccination made compulsory 10 of 28 What happened in 1855? John Snow's 'On the Mode of Communication of Cholera' 11 of 28 What happened in 1859? Florence Nightingales's 'Notes on Nursing' 12 of 28 What happened in 1861? Pasteur publishes the Germ Theory 13 of 28 What happened in 1875? Public Health Act 14 of 28 What happened in 1876 Robert Koch identifies anthrax spores 15 of 28 What happened in 1895? Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays 16 of 28 What happened in 1909? Ehrlich and Hata discover the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606 17 of 28 What happened in 1928? Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 18 of 28 What happened in 1932? Domagk discovers the second magic bullet, Protonsil 19 of 28 What happened in 1938-40? Florey and Chain purify penicillin 20 of 28 What happened in 1940? Government launches diphtheria vaccination campaign 21 of 28 What happened in 1948? NHS founded 22 of 28 What happened in 1953? Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA? 23 of 28 What happened in 1956? Government's first polio vaccination campaign 24 of 28 What happened in 1965? Cigarette adverts banned from television 25 of 28 What happened in 1967? Christaiaan Barnard completes first heart transplant 26 of 28 What happened in 2003? Human Genome Project completed 27 of 28 What happened in 2006-7? Smoking banned in public places 28 of 28
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