Medicine Through Time Key Dates (1700s-1900s)

Medicine Through Time Key Dates (1700s-1900s)

1. 1796

   • Jenner discovers smallpox vaccination

2. 1832

   • Cholera Epidemic

3. 1842

   • Chadwicks report on public health

4. 1847

   • Simpson discovers chloroform

5. 1853

   • Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory

6. 1854

   • Cholera epidemic: John snow discovers cholera is spread in water
   • Florence Nightingale proves that cleaner hospitals reduce deaths

7. 1857

   • Queen Victoria uses chloroform - The death rate of operations increases

8. 1861

   • Pasteurs germ theory

9. 1865

   • Lister discovers and proves carbolic acid can be used to sterilise an operating theatre

10. 1867

    • Working class/poor people get the vote

11. 1872

    • Koch begins investigating which germs cause which disease

12. 1875

    • Public health act-Towns must clean streets & sewers

13. 1879

    • Pasteur finds vaccination for chicken cholera

14. 1890

    • Halstead suggests wearing rubber gloves

15. 1900

    • Blood groups discovered by Landsteiner

16. 1906-11

    • Liberal reforms

17. 1911

    • First chemical compound cures syphillis

18. 1914-18

    • Plastic surgery improved because of WW1

19. 1928

    • Fleming discovers penicilin kills germs (writes report)

20. Florey and chain develop penicilin

    • 1930s

21. 1939-45

    • Penicilin is mass produced due to WW2

22. 1948

    • NHS is founded

23. 1967

    • First heart transplant