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Medicine Through Time

By Hazel W
  • May 28, 1300

    Medical Schools used Gaddesden's Books

  • May 28, 1348

    Black Death

  • May 28, 1350

    Galen | Theory of Opposites

  • May 28, 1350

    Galen | Theory of Opposites

  • May 28, 1450

    Printing Press

  • Period: May 28, 1500 to

    Reformation

  • May 28, 1543

    Vesalius | Fabric of the Human Body

  • Harvey | Book Published

  • Royal Society Founded

  • Bubonic Plague

  • Leeuwenhoek Microscopes

  • No Divine Right

  • Lady Mary Montague | Inoculation

  • Jenner | Investigated Smallpox and Cowpox Link

  • Jenner | Vaccinations work Published

  • Jennerian Society Founded

  • German Nurses Trained

  • Public Health Act 1

  • Pasteur | Investigated Liquids turning Sour

  • Kaiserwerth Hospital Trained Nurses (Germany)

  • Vaccinations made Compulsory

  • Period: to

    Crimean War

  • Nightingale | Notes on Nursing Published

  • Nightingale School for Nurses Founded

  • Pasteur | Germ Theory Published

  • Kings College Trained Nurses

  • Blackwell | First Woman Doctor

  • Blackwell | Founded New Hospital for Women

  • Blackwell | Helped set up London School of Medicine for Women

  • Koch | Investigated Bacteria and Disease Link

  • Public Health Act 2

  • Act allowing Women Doctors

  • Pasteur | Chicken Cholera Vaccination

  • Koch | Discovered TB causing Microbes

  • Koch | Discovered Cholera causing Microbes

  • Period: to

    Boer War

  • Landsteiner

  • Midwives Act

  • Curie | X-Rays

  • Health Visitors for Pregnant Women

  • Hata | Discovered Salvarsan 606 (M.B.1)

  • Proven that Chemical Drugs can Target and Kill Illnesses

  • National Insurance Act

  • Period: to

    WWI

  • Ministry of Health Founded

  • Nursing Act

  • Fleming | Discovered Penicillin Mould

  • Fleming | Penicillin work Published

  • Electron Microscopes

  • Domagk | Discovered Prontosil (M.B.2)

  • 3,000 Infant Deaths from Diphtheria

  • Period: to

    WWII

  • Florey & Chain | Tested Penicillin on Mice

  • Florey & Chain | Tested Penicillin on Humans

  • Beveridge Report

  • NHS

  • Prescription Charges

  • Watson & Crick | Discovered Structure of DNA

  • W.H.O. | Smallpox Eradicated

  • First Medical School | Salerno