key dates + stats for medicine during the Renaissance

When was the printing press made commercially available?

1450, invented by Gutenberg

When were microscopes invented?

1590

When was the great plague?

1665-1666

How many people did the great plague killed?

In 1665, 100 000 people in London which was almost 25% of its population

How many people lived in London?

By 1665, nearly one on every ten Britain

What were the literacy rates of men?

In the late 1400s it was 10% but it rose to 60% by 1754

What were the literacy rates of women?

10% in 1600 and rose to 40% by 1754

What year did Paré discovered the treatment of gunshot wound by chance?

1537

When was Paré’s work printed in English?

1634

When was Paré’s work in English given to the library of barber surgeons?

1591

How many patients did hospitals great?

By 1800, over 20 000 patients per year in London

When was the college of physicians set up?

1518

When was the MMR debate?

1998

How much of the population must be vaccinated for it to work?

95%

How many people died from smallpox in the 20th century?

300 million

How much people did smallpox kill to those it infects?

1/3

When did Jenner carry out his experiment on an 8 year old boy?

1796

When did the British government make the smallpox vaccination compulsory?

1853

When was smallpox eradicated?

1980