Medicine through time: Important dates

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What happened in 1348?
The black death hits Britain
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What happened in the 1470s?
First british printing press
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What happened in 1543?
Vesalius wrote 'The Fabric of the Human Body'
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What happened in 1628?
William Harvey wrote 'On the Motions of the Heart and blood'
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What happened in 1660?
Royal Society founded
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What happened in 1665?
Great Plague hits London
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What happened in 1676?
Thomas Sydenham's 'Medicals Observations'
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What happened in 1798?
Jenner publishes his vaccination findings
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What happened in 1847?
James Simpson discovers Chloroform?
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What happened in 1853?
Smallpox vaccination made compulsory
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What happened in 1855?
John Snow's 'On the Mode of Communication of Cholera'
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What happened in 1859?
Florence Nightingales's 'Notes on Nursing'
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What happened in 1861?
Pasteur publishes the Germ Theory
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What happened in 1875?
Public Health Act
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What happened in 1876
Robert Koch identifies anthrax spores
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What happened in 1895?
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays
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What happened in 1909?
Ehrlich and Hata discover the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606
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What happened in 1928?
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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What happened in 1932?
Domagk discovers the second magic bullet, Protonsil
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What happened in 1938-40?
Florey and Chain purify penicillin
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What happened in 1940?
Government launches diphtheria vaccination campaign
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What happened in 1948?
NHS founded
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What happened in 1953?
Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA?
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What happened in 1956?
Government's first polio vaccination campaign
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What happened in 1965?
Cigarette adverts banned from television
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What happened in 1967?
Christaiaan Barnard completes first heart transplant
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What happened in 2003?
Human Genome Project completed
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What happened in 2006-7?
Smoking banned in public places
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