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Robert Liston uses Ether as anaesthetic
1846
James Simpson discover chloroform as anaesthetic
1847
1st Public Health act
1848
Cholera epidemic
1854
John Snow and the broad street pump
1854
the great stink
1858
Florence Nightingale and ‘notes on hospitals’
1859
Florence nightingale and ‘notes on nursing’
1859
Nightingale school for the training of nurses established
1860
Pasteur’s Germ theory
1861
Lister uses Carbolic acid in Surgery
1865
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson qualifies to practice medicine
1865
2nd public health act
1875
artisans dwellings act
1875
medical act to allow women to become doctors
1876
Pasteur publishes ‘Germ theory and it’s applications to medicine’
1878
Koch identifies microorganism that cause tuberculosis
1882
Koch identifies microorganism that causes cholera
1883
infectious disease (notification act)
1889
Rontgen discover X-rays
1895
Landsteiner identifies different blood groups
1901
school medical service introduced
1907
Ehrlich develops Salvarsan 606 (first magic bullet)
1909
Marie Curie develops use of radiotherapy in cancer treatment
1910
Gillies sets up a plastic surgery unit
1917
developments in the first world war
1914-18
X-rays, military hospitals, blood transfusions, brain and plastic surgery
Ministry of health established
1919
isolation hospitals for tuberculosis patients
1919
Fleming discovers penicillin
1928
Florey and Chain begin work on penicillin
1839
Beveridge report
1942
developments in the second world war
1839-45
plastic surgery, blood transfusions, brain and heart surgery
national health service act
1846
National health service begins
1948
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