Timeline: history of disease

540

First signs on plague

The first outbreaks of plague start at penisilum , egypt

Oct 10, 1000

Early chinese inoculation

The son of a Chinese statesman was said to have been inoculated against smallpox, probably by having powder from pulverized smallpox scabs blown into his nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin.

Oct 10, 1590

first microscopes

Duch lens grinder, named zacharius jannasen invented the microscope

Dec 9, 1600

Influenza outbreak

Oct 10, 1623

New disease emerges in Britain

A new unknown disease emerges in Britain, possibly typhus

Oct 10, 1665

The great plague of london

Theplague reaches london, killing over 100,000 people

Jun 3, 1670

Measels epidemic in london

Jan – June measles epidemic (London) followed by smallpox epidemic, mention of ‘hooping cough- high diarrhoea in infants

May 26, 1796

FIRST VACCINATION MADE

Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus. In his famous experiment, he rubs pus from a dairymaid's cowpox postule into scratches on the arm of his gardener's 8-year-old son, and then exposes him to smallpox six weeks later (which he does not develop). The process becomes known as vaccination from the Latin vacca for cow. Vaccination with cowpox is made compulsory in Britain in 1853. Jenner is sometimes called the founding father of immu

Oct 10, 1879