Medicine Through Time - Important Dates

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c.3000
Writing developing in Egypt
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c.400
Cult of Asclepius popular
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c.420-350
Hippocratic Corpus
3 of 31
129
Birth of Galen
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476
Fall of Rome
5 of 31
663
Synod of Whitby
6 of 31
980-1037
Life of Avicenna
7 of 31
1348
Black Death
8 of 31
1454
Printing in Europe
9 of 31
1660
Founding of Royal Society
10 of 31
1665
Great Plague of London
11 of 31
1720
Inoculation in Britain
12 of 31
1796
First vaccination
13 of 31
1831
Cholera in Britain
14 of 31
1842
Chadwick Report
15 of 31
1846/7
Ether and Chloroform in use
16 of 31
1848
1st Public Health Act
17 of 31
1854
Cholera linked to water pollution (Snow)
18 of 31
1857
Germ Theory (Pasteur)
19 of 31
1875
Public Health Act
20 of 31
1890
Antiseptic in general use
21 of 31
1895
First X-rays
22 of 31
1896
Becquerel discovers radioactivity
23 of 31
1900
Blood groups discovered
24 of 31
1906
Liberal Reforms
25 of 31
1928
Penicillin (Fleming)
26 of 31
1939-45
World War II
27 of 31
1951
First kidney transplant
28 of 31
1953
Structure of DNA identified
29 of 31
Late 1950s
The Pill
30 of 31
1981
AIDS discovered
31 of 31

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Cult of Asclepius popular

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Hippocratic Corpus

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Birth of Galen

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Fall of Rome

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