GCSE History- Key Dates in Medicine through Time

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The Black Death struck England

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Vesalius pubishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"

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1348

The Black Death struck England

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1543

Vesalius pubishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"

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1628

Harvey publishes "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals"

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1665

The Great Plague strikes London

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1796

Edward Jenner develops the Smallpox vaccination

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1842

Edwin Chadwick publishes "On the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population"

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1847

James Simpson discovers Chloroform

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1848

The First Public Health Act

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1849

John Snow publishes his work on the disease Cholera

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1849

Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree (America)

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1853

Vaccinations made compulsory in Britain

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1858

The Big Stink in London

(the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames)

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1861

Pasteur publishes his Germ Theory

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1867

Joseph Lister develops Carbolic Acid as an antiseptic

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1875

Second Public Health Act

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1876

Robert Koch uses the dyeing method to identify the Anthrax Bacteria

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1881

Louis Pasteur develops first Anthrax vaccine

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1883

Koch discovers the Cholera bacteria

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1895

Roentgen discovers X-Rays

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1901

Karl Landsteiner identifies blood groups (allows for blood transfusions)

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1909

Paul Ehrlich discovers the Magic Bullet

(Salvarsan 606 —> dangerous because it had arsenic in it)

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1911

National Insurance Act

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1928

Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

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1930s

2nd Magical Bullet (Prontosil) discovered by Domagk

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1948

NHS created under Health Minsiter Bevan (national health service)

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1948

WHO estasblished (world health organisation)

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1953

Crick and Watson work on the structure of the DNA molecule

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1980

WHO announce that Smallpox has been eradicated (long term impact of edward jenner)

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1983

HIV, the virus causing AIDS, is identified

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1996

Dolly (a sheep) , becomes the 1st clone

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2006

1st vaccine to target a casuse of cancer (cervical)