Medicine: Time-Line

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1348
The Black Death hits Britain
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1470s
First British pringing press
2 of 27
1543
Vesalius' 'The Fabric of the Human Body'
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1628
Harvey's 'On the Motions of the Heart and Blood'
4 of 27
1660
The Royal Society was founded
5 of 27
1665
The Great Plague hits London
6 of 27
1676
Sydenham's 'Medical Observations'
7 of 27
17998
Jenner publishes his vaccination findings
8 of 27
1847
James Simpson discovers chloroform
9 of 27
1853
Smallpox vaccination made compulsory
10 of 27
1855
Florence Nightingale's 'Notes on Nursing'
11 of 27
1861
Pasteur publishes the Germ Theory
12 of 27
1875
Public Helath Act
13 of 27
1876
Robert Kock identifies anthrax spores
14 of 27
1895
Wilhem Rontgen discovers X-rays
15 of 27
1909
Ehrlich and Hata discovers the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606
16 of 27
1928
Alexander Fleming discovers penicilin
17 of 27
1932
Domagk discovers the second magic bullet, Prontosil
18 of 27
1938-40
Florey and Chain purify penicillin
19 of 27
1940
Government launches diptheria vaccination campaign
20 of 27
1948
NHS founded
21 of 27
1953
Watson and Crick doscover the structure of DNA
22 of 27
1956
Government's first polio vaccination campaign
23 of 27
1965
Cigarette adverts banned from television
24 of 27
1967
Christiaan Barnard completes first heart trasnplant
25 of 27
2003
Human Genome Project completed
26 of 27
2006-7
Smoking banned in public places
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First British pringing press

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Vesalius' 'The Fabric of the Human Body'

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Harvey's 'On the Motions of the Heart and Blood'

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The Royal Society was founded

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