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The Black Death hits Britain

1348-49

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First British Printing Press

1470’s

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Vesalius’ ‘the Fabric of the Human Body’

1543

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Harvey’s ‘On motions of the Heart and Blood’

1628

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Royal Society founded

1660

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The Great Plague hits London

1665

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Sydenham’s ‘Medical Observations’

1676

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Ehrlich and Hata discover the first Magic Bullet, Salvarsan 606

1909

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Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin

1928

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Domagk discovers second Magic Bullet, Prontosil

1932

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Florey and Chain purify penicillin

1938-40

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Government launches diphtheria vaccination campaign

1940

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NHS was founded

1948

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Watson + Crick discover the structure of DNA

1953

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Rosalind Franklin discovers DNA

1953

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Gov’s first polio vaccination campaign

1956

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Cigarette adds banned from television

1965

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Christian Barnard completes first heart transplant

1967

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Human Genome Project completed

2003

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Smoking banned in public places

2006-7

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The Middle Ages/Medieval Period

1250-1500

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Britain’s first hospital, St Bartholomew’s was opened

1123

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Average life expectancy was 35

1350

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The law to keep streets and rivers clean was introduced

1388

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The Renaissance Period

1500-1700

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The first dissection

1565

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Modern Britain

1900+

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Life expectancy below 50

1900

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National Insurance bill gave help to people who were sick or unemployed

1911

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WW1 leads to developments in surgery + treatment

1914-18

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Invention of the Electron Microscope

1931

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