GCSE History- Key Dates in Medicine through Time

The Black Death struck England

Vesalius pubishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"

Harvey publishes "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals"

The Great Plague strikes London

Edward Jenner develops the Smallpox vaccination

Edwin Chadwick publishes "On the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population"

James Simpson discovers Chloroform

The First Public Health Act

John Snow publishes his work on the disease Cholera

Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree (America)

Vaccinations made compulsory in Britain

The Big Stink in London

(the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames)

Pasteur publishes his Germ Theory

Joseph Lister develops Carbolic Acid as an antiseptic

Second Public Health Act

Robert Koch uses the dyeing method to identify the Anthrax Bacteria

Louis Pasteur develops first Anthrax vaccine

Koch discovers the Cholera bacteria

Roentgen discovers X-Rays

Karl Landsteiner identifies blood groups (allows for blood transfusions)

Paul Ehrlich discovers the Magic Bullet

(Salvarsan 606 —> dangerous because it had arsenic in it)

National Insurance Act

Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

2nd Magical Bullet (Prontosil) discovered by Domagk

NHS created under Health Minsiter Bevan (national health service)

WHO estasblished (world health organisation)

Crick and Watson work on the structure of the DNA molecule

WHO announce that Smallpox has been eradicated (long term impact of edward jenner)

HIV, the virus causing AIDS, is identified

Dolly (a sheep) , becomes the 1st clone

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