Studied by 32 people
key dates throughout a medicine through time
1348
The Black Death struck England
1543
Vesalius pubishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
1628
Harvey publishes "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals"
1665
The Great Plague strikes London
1796
Edward Jenner develops the Smallpox vaccination
1842
Edwin Chadwick publishes "On the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population"
1847
James Simpson discovers Chloroform
1848
The First Public Health Act
1849
John Snow publishes his work on the disease Cholera
1849
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree (America)
1853
Vaccinations made compulsory in Britain
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)
1861
Pasteur publishes his Germ Theory
1867
Joseph Lister develops Carbolic Acid as an antiseptic
1875
Second Public Health Act
1876
Robert Koch uses the dyeing method to identify the Anthrax Bacteria
1881
Louis Pasteur develops first Anthrax vaccine
1883
Koch discovers the Cholera bacteria
1895
Roentgen discovers X-Rays
1901
Karl Landsteiner identifies blood groups (allows for blood transfusions)
1909
Paul Ehrlich discovers the Magic Bullet
(Salvarsan 606 —> dangerous because it had arsenic in it)
1911
National Insurance Act
1928
Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
1930s
2nd Magical Bullet (Prontosil) discovered by Domagk
1948
NHS created under Health Minsiter Bevan (national health service)
1948
WHO estasblished (world health organisation)
1953
Crick and Watson work on the structure of the DNA molecule
1980
WHO announce that Smallpox has been eradicated (long term impact of edward jenner)
1983
HIV, the virus causing AIDS, is identified
1996
Dolly (a sheep) , becomes the 1st clone
2006
1st vaccine to target a casuse of cancer (cervical)
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