History medicine

• When was the NHS launched


  1948
• When was the Human Genome Project completed 


  2001
• When did National Insurance start


  1910
• Which two people further developed penicillin 1939-present


  Florey and Chain
• When did the vaccination for measles become compulsory


  1968
• Who was the first public health campaigner who released a report in 1842 


  Edwin Chadwick
• What was the Public health acts aims


  • clean streets
  • prevention of miasma
• Who discovered blood groups

  Karl Landsteiner
• When we’re blood groups discovered 


  1901
• What year did the British government take action on smoking restrictions 


  2007
• microsurgery, keyhole surgery and transplants are examples of


  High tech surger
• what group supported Galens theories for years


  The Catholic church
• What two diseases did Sydenham distinguish between 


  Measles and Scarlett fever
• What year did the Black Death arrive (first outbreak)


  1348
• What was the 1536 event that meant the power of the Catholic Church began to decline


  Dissolution of the monasteries
• What was one popular renaissance chemical cure

  Antimony
• What was William Harvey’s work in 1628


  • blood circulatory system
  • the heart is a pump
  • the heart has a pacemaker
• Which medical practice did the Catholic Church disapprove of

  Dissecting
• What’s the name of the 70 herb remedy used in the medieval and renaissance period

  Theriac
• What did Edward jenner discover in 1796


  • milkmaids were immune to smallpox due to cowpox
  • Cowpox is the key to the smallpox vaccine
• What did Louis Pasture discover in 1861 


  • pasturation of milk
  • germ theory
• When was the Royal Society established 


  1660
• What was the Royal Society about


  • enabling physicians to share information about their findings
• What method did Robert Koch use to identify specific bacteria


  A Petri dish and agar jelly
• What were the 3 main problems in surgery that resulted in high death rates


  • infection
  • Blood loss
  • pain
• What did John Snow discover 


  Cholera in soho water pump
• When did Florence nightingale create her own hospitals 


  1860
• what was the name of Florence nightingales book

  Notes on nursing published in 1859
• When was the smallpox made complusory


  1853
• When was the first public health act passed


  1848
• Who discovered DNA

  Crick and Watson
• When was the printing press invented 


  1440
• When we’re x-rays discovered 


  1895
• What did Joseph Lister discover


  Carbolic acid to prevent spread of infection and manintain cleanliness during surgery
• What did James Simpson discover


  Chloroform as a anaesthetic for surgery
• What were the two types of safer surgery

  Aesptic and anaesthetic
• Who discovered the Theory Of four humours


  Hippocrates
• Who discovered the theory of opposites

  Galen
• Who worked in hospitals

  Monks and Nuns
• What types of hospitals did Florence nightgale create


  Pavillion style