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Flashcards by Olivia Graham, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Olivia Graham
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| Question | Answer |
| Black Death | 1348 |
| The Great Plague | 1665 |
| Chadwick's 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population' | 1842 |
| The 1st Public Health Act | 1848 |
| The 2nd Public Health Act | 1875 |
| Pasteur's Germ Theory | 1861 |
| Pasteur's Chicken Cholera Vaccine | 1879 |
| Harvey's 'Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood' | 1628 |
| Vesalius' 'Fabric of the Human Body' | 1543 |
| John Snow maps out deaths due to Cholera Outbreak | 1854 |
| Bazalgette's work on London's sewerage system | 1853-4 |
| London's Metropolitan Board of Works established | 1856 |
| Jenner's Smallpox Vaccination | 1796 |
| Smallpox completely eradicated | 1980 |
| Snow's 'On the Mode of Communication of Cholera' | 1849 |
| The Great Stink | 1858 |
| Crimean War begins | 1853 |
| Nightingale Training School for Nurses set up at St Thomas' | 1860 |
| Nightingale's 'Notes on Nursing' | 1860 |
| Nightingale's 'Notes on Hospitals' | 1859 |
| Institut Pasteur established | 1888 |
| Koch found the germ that caused Anthrax | 1877 |
| Koch discovered the germ that caused Septicaemia | 1878 |
| Koch found the germ causing TB | 1882 |
| First X-Ray (Wilhelm Rontgen) | 1895/6 |
| First use of Radiotherapy (Emil Grubbe) | 1899 |
| First CT Scan (Godfrey Hounsfield) | 1971 |
| Dialysis (Willen Kolff) | 1943 |
| Structure of DNA discovered (Watson and Crick) | 1953 |
| Establishment of the NHS | July 5th 1948 |
| Liberal Welfare Reforms | Starting in 1906 |
| Joseph Lister noticed a bacteria called Penicillin (no evidence) | 1872 |
| Lister treats a nurse's infected wound with Penicillin | 1884 |
| Fleming sent to France to study soldiers' wounds | 1914 |
| Fleming discovers the staphylococci bacteria has disappeared from the petri dish | 1928 |
| Fleming writes about Penicillin in a medical journal | 1929 |
| Florey and Chain went to America to get funding for reseach | 1938 |
| The first test of Penicillin on Albert Alexander | 1941 |
| The USA starts mass producing penicillin | 1941 |
| Britain mass produce Penicillin | 1944 |
| Prescription Charges Introduced | 1952 |
| Prescription charges abolished | 1965 |
| Prescription charge brought back | 1968 |
| Walter Cannon uses a Barium Meal | 1896 |
| Henry Dale discovers Histamine | 1910 |
| Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover Insulin | 1921 |
| Edgar Allen discovers Oestrogen | 1923 |
| Ernst Laqueur isolated Testosterone | 1935 |
| Invention of the Electron Microscope | 1931 |
| Syntex developed Norethisterone which lead to the production of contraceptive pills | 1951 |
| Leroy Stevens discovered Stem Cells | 1953 |
| Patrick Steptoe developed IVF | 1970s |
| Louise Brown - The first test tube baby | 1978 |
| Endoscopes developed | 1970s |
| MRI scans developed | 1980s |
| In the Visible Human project | 1986 |
| The Human Genome project | 1990s |
| Gunther Von Hagens performed live dissections on TV | 2002 |
| Use of Thalidomide | 1950s |
| Joseph Salk discovered a Polio vaccine | 1954 |
| American surgeons implanted electrodes connected into a miniature computed into the visual cortex of a blind man | 2002 |
| Salverson 606 developed to treat Syphilis - Paul Ehrlich | 1905 |
| Prontosil developed by Domagk | 1932 |
| The Printing Press developed | 1455 |
| Martin Luther posted his 'Ninety-Five Theses' which began the Protestant Reformation | 1517 |
| Ambroise Pare developed ligatures | 1570s |
| Antony van Leeuwenhoek created a superior microscope that magnifies up to 200x | 1668 |
| Inoculation first used in Europe - Lady Mary Montague | 1721 |
| Industrial Revolution | 1830s |
| Cholera Epidemic | 1831 |
| Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman doctor in USA | 1847 |
| Doctors' Qualifications had to be regulated | 1858 |
| Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson becomes the first female doctor in the UK | 1865 |
| The UK government starts to introduce laws against the pollution of rivers, the sale of poor quality food and building regulations were enforced | 1876 |
| Isolation hospitals were set up for patients with infectious diseases | 1889 |
| Marie Curie discovers radioactive elements radium and polonium | 1895 |
| Emergency hospital scheme introduced - Funded and ran by government | 1939 |
| National Health Service Act | 1946 |
| First kidney transplant (America) | 1952 |
| Contraceptive pill introduced | 1961 |
| Christiaan Barnard (South Africa) performed the first heart transplant - the patient lived for 18 days | 1967 |
| National Organ Donor register created | 1994 |
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