Medicine through time

• 1348


  The Black Death struck England
• 1536


  Pare becomes an army surgeon, leading him tp discover ligatures
• 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
• 1799


  Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anaesthetic properties of Nitrous Oxide
• 1842


  Crawford W Long uses ether as a general anaesthetic
• 1842


  Edwin Chadwick publishes "On the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population"
• 1847


  James Simpson discovers Chloroform
• 1847


  Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent the transmission of purperal fever (washing hands)
• 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
• 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
• 1909


  Paul Ehrlich discovers the Magic Bullet
• 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
• 1948


  WHO estasblished
• 1953


  Crick and Watson work on the structure of the DNA molecule
• 1980


  WHO announce that Smallpox has been eradicated
• 1983


  HIV, the virus causing AIDS, is identified
• 2006


  1st vaccine to target a casuse of cancer (cervical)