Dates (Medicine)

• How many hospitals were there by 1500?

  1100
• When did the Bubonic Plague arrive in England?

  1348
• How long did the Bubonic Plague take to kill?

  3-5 days
• How much of the population did the Bubonic Plague wipe out?

  1/3
• How long were you expected to quarantine for during the Bubonic Plague?

  40 days
• How much of the hospitals in the Medieval era were controlled by the Church?


  30%
• When did the Theory of Four Humours start to get rejected?

  1500s
• When did William Harvey suggest blood circulated around the body?

  1628
• when did microscopes start to be developed?

  1600s
• When was 'Observationes Medicae', Thomas Sydenham, published?

  1676
• When were the first microscopes that allowed bacteria to be observed, invented?

  1683
• When was the printing press invented?


  1440
• When was The Great Plague?

  1665
• How many Londoners died during the Great Plague?

  100,000
• When was the Louis Pasteur's 'Germ Theory' published?


  1861
• When did Robert Koch discover the bacteria that caused tuberculosis?

  1882
• When did Robert Koch discover cholera?

  1883
• When did Robert Koch prove that cholera was spread in water supplies?

  1884
• When was the microbe that caused diptheria discovered?

  1883
• When did most people accept that germs caused disease?

  1900
• how many hospitals were there in 1700?

  5
• When was the Crimean War?

  1854
• How did Florence Nightingale impact the mortality rate?

  dropped from 40% to 2%
• When did Florence Nightingale write 'Notes on Nursing'?


  1859
• Bleeding continued to be a problem throughout which centuries?

  18th - 19th
• When did James Simpson discover chloroform?

  1847
• When was chloroform used on Queen Victoria?

  1853
• When did Hannah Greener die from overdose of chloroform?

  1848
• When did Joseph Lister use carbolic acid in surgery?

  1865
• How many epidemics were there of smallpox in the 18th century?

  11
• When did Edward Jenner create vaccinations?


  1798
• By 1800, how many people had been vaccinated from smallpox?


  100,000
• When was the Royal Jennerian Society founded?

  1803
• When did the government start to enforce the compulsory vaccinations?

  1872
• When did the government make inoculation a crime?

  1840
• When were public vaccinators appointed?

  1871
• When did Edwin Chadwick publish his 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Classes'?

  1842
• When was the Second Public Health Act passed?

  1875
• When was the last cholera epidemic?

  1866-67
• When did cholera arrive in London?

  1832