Medicine through time

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  • 1348

    The Black Death struck England
  • 1536

    Pare becomes an army surgeon, leading him tp discover ligatures
  • 1543

    Vesalius publishes "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
  • 1996

    Dolly (a sheep) , becomes the 1st clone
  • 2006

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