18th and 19th Century

• Timeline of Important Dates

  . 1798 - Jenner publishes his vaccination findings

  . 1847 - James Simpson discovers chloroform

  . 1853 - Smallpox vaccination made compulsory

  . 1855 - John Snow's 'On the Mode of Communication of Cholera'

  . 1859 - Florence Nightingale's 'Notes on Nursing'

  . 1861 - Pasteur publishes the Germ Theory

  . 1875 - Public Health Act

  . 1876 - Robert Koch identifies anthrax spores