Medicine Through Time Key Dates

When was there an unusual positioning of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn?

1345

When did Paracelsus theorise that disease was caused by chemicals in the body?

1526

When did Fracastoro publish On Contagion?

1546

When was Micrographia published?

1665

When did the Royal Society receive its Royal Charter?

1662

When was Philosophical Transactions first published?

1665

When was Pharmacopoeia Londinensis published?

1618

When did Harvey’s ideas first appear in universities?

1673

When was there an unusual alignment of Saturn and Jupiter?

October 1664

When was Germ Theory published?

1861

When was Germ Theory of Infection published?

1878

When was the tuberculosis bacteria discovered?

1882

When was the cholera bacteria discovered?

1883

When did the Crimean War start?

1854

When did Nightingale return from the Crimean War?

1856

When did Catherine the Great and her children get inoculated?

1768

When did Jenner publish the Variolae Vaccinae?

1798

When was inoculation made illegal?

1840

When did Snow present his findings?

1855

When did work on London sewers begin?

1860

When was Photo 51 captured?

1952

When was prontosil discovered?

1932

When was M&B developed?

1938

When was streptomycin discovered?

1943

When was a GPs charter first introduced?

1966

When was the first kidney transplant?

1956

When was the first lung transplant?

1963

When was the first liver transplant?

1963

When was the first heart transplant?

1967

When was the diphtheria vaccine?

1942

When was the polio vaccine?

1956 and in 1962

When was the tetanus vaccine developed?

1961

When was the measles vaccine discovered?

1968

When was the rubella vaccine developed?

1970

When were the Clean Air Acts?

1956 and 1968

When were the episodes of smog in London that triggered the Clean Air Acts?

1952

When did Florey and Chain start work on penicillin?

1939

When did did the age for buying tobacco change from 16 to 18?

2007