Medicine through time
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- 1348The Black Death struck England
- 1536Pare becomes an army surgeon, leading him tp discover ligatures
- 1543Vesalius publishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
- 1628Harvey publishes "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals"
- 1665The Great Plague strikes London
- 1796Edward Jenner develops the Smallpox vaccination
- 1799Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anaesthetic properties of Nitrous Oxide
- 1842Crawford W Long uses ether as a general anaesthetic
- 1842Edwin Chadwick publishes "On the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population"
- 1847James Simpson discovers Chloroform
- 1847Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent the transmission of purperal fever (washing hands)
- 1848The First Public Health Act
- 1849John Snow publishes his work on the disease Cholera
- 1849Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree (America)
- 1853Vaccinations made compulsory in Britain
- 1858The Big Stink in London
- 1861Pasteur publishes his Germ Theory
- 1867Joseph Lister develops Carbolic Acid as an antiseptic
- 1875Second Public Health Act
- 1876Robert Koch uses the dyeing method to identify the Anthrax Bacteria
- 1881Louis Pasteur develops first Anthrax vaccine
- 1883Koch discovers the Cholera bacteria
- 1895Roentgen discovers X-Rays
- 1901Karl Landsteiner identifies blood groups
- 1909Paul Ehrlich discovers the Magic Bullet
- 1911National Insurance Act
- 1928Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
- 1930s2nd Magical Bullet (Prontosil) discovered by Domagk
- 1948NHS created under Health Minsiter Bevan
- 1948WHO estasblished
- 1953Crick and Watson work on the structure of the DNA molecule
- 1980WHO announce that Smallpox has been eradicated
- 1983HIV, the virus causing AIDS, is identified
- 1996Dolly (a sheep) , becomes the 1st clone
- 20061st vaccine to target a casuse of cancer (cervical)