MTT key dates

when was the Gutenberg printing press invented (by Johannes Gutenburg)

1440

By what year were there 1,100 hospitals

1500

when were there letters between Lady Margaret Paston and her husband Sir john when he was sick in London and she was worrying at home showing that neither trusted doctors and both would be happy receiving treatment from her

1464

when was the black death

1348

when did the black death spread to sicily

1347

When was the supposed unusual positioning of the planets: Mars, Jupiter and Saturn which astrologers interpreted it as either something great or terrible would happen, many blamed this as the cause of black death

1345

when was the royal society established

1660

When did harvey prove that blood circulates around the body

1628

when did Robert Hook develop a more powerful microscope and published a book of images from his observation

1665

when did paracelsus theorise that disease was caused by problems with chemicals inside the body

1526

When did Thomas Sydenham publish ‘observationes Medicae’ theorising that diseases were separate from the patient rather than being caused by something the patient did

1676

when did Leeuwenhoek develop a microscpe and observed ‘animascules’ or ‘little animals’

1683

when did andreas vesalius publish ‘six anatomical tables’ which showed different parts of the human body labelled in: latin, greek, hebrew and arabic

1537

when did Vesalius publish ‘on the fabric of the human body’

1543