history of med

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  • when was astrology bought to England -> 1100-1300
  • 1300 -> less than 100 physicians
  • black death to England -> 1348
  • Edward 111 sent order to the lord mayor to remove filth from the streets -> 1349
  • parliament closed -> 1349
  • dissolution of the monasteries -> 1530s
  • 1514 --> versailus was born
  • 1543 -> fabric of the human body published by Versaillus
  • 1676 --> Thomas Sydenham released 'medical observations'
  • 1470s -> printing press
  • 1473-1599 -> over 600 different versions of Galens books were published
  • 1660 -> royal society was set up
  • 1665 -> great plague
  • 1751 -> 3500 people died of small pox
  • 1798 -> Jenner published his findings
  • 1802 -> Parliment gave Jenner 10,000 pounds
  • 1853 -> small pox vaccine made compulsory
  • 1861 -> germ theory
  • 1875 -> public health act
  • 1859 -> Nightingales notes on nursing was published
  • 1900 -> 64,000 trained nurses
  • 1799 -> Nitrus Oxide discovered by Humphrey Davy
  • 1842 --> Crawford long discovered Ether
  • 1847 --> James Simpson discovered chloroform
  • 1889 --> surgical gloves created
  • 1831 --> cholera in England
  • 1854 --> cholera on broad street
  • 1842 -> Chadwicks report on living conditions
  • 1953 -> structure of DNA first described
  • 2003 --> human Genome
  • 1895 --> Xrays
  • 1970s --> MRI scans
  • 1872 --> Godfrey Hounsfeild discovered CT scans
  • 1929-31 -> findings on penecillin published
  • 1940 -> freeze drying technique to preserve Penecillin
  • 1909 -> Salverson 606 found
  • 1932 -> Gerald Domagk found that prontosil stopped Streptococcus
  • 1896-1898 -> radiation
  • 1900 -> Landsteiner discovered blood groups
  • 1917 -> blood bank in Battle of cambria