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The Black Death hits Britain
1348-49
First British Printing Press
1470’s
Vesalius’ ‘the Fabric of the Human Body’
1543
Harvey’s ‘On motions of the Heart and Blood’
1628
Royal Society founded
1660
The Great Plague hits London
1665
Sydenham’s ‘Medical Observations’
1676
Ehrlich and Hata discover the first Magic Bullet, Salvarsan 606
1909
Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin
1928
Domagk discovers second Magic Bullet, Prontosil
1932
Florey and Chain purify penicillin
1938-40
Government launches diphtheria vaccination campaign
1940
NHS was founded
1948
Watson + Crick discover the structure of DNA
1953
Rosalind Franklin discovers DNA
1953
Gov’s first polio vaccination campaign
1956
Cigarette adds banned from television
1965
Christian Barnard completes first heart transplant
1967
Human Genome Project completed
2003
Smoking banned in public places
2006-7
The Middle Ages/Medieval Period
1250-1500
Britain’s first hospital, St Bartholomew’s was opened
1123
Average life expectancy was 35
1350
The law to keep streets and rivers clean was introduced
1388
The Renaissance Period
1500-1700
The first dissection
1565
Modern Britain
1900+
Life expectancy below 50
1900
National Insurance bill gave help to people who were sick or unemployed
1911
WW1 leads to developments in surgery + treatment
1914-18
Invention of the Electron Microscope
1931
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