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 May 28, 1700 Reformation May 28, 1543 Vesalius | Fabric of the Human Body May 28, 1628 Harvey | Book Published May 28, 1660 Royal Society Founded May 28, 1665 Bubonic Plague May 28, 1673 Leeuwenhoek Microscopes May 28, 1714 No Divine Right May 28, 1721 Lady Mary Montague | Inoculation May 28, 1796 Jenner | Investigated Smallpox and Cowpox Link May 28, 1798 Jenner | Vaccinations work Published May 28, 1802 Jennerian Society Founded May 28, 1833 German Nurses Trained May 28, 1848 Public Health Act 1 May 28, 1850 Pasteur | Investigated Liquids turning Sour May 28, 1850 Kaiserwerth Hospital Trained Nurses (Germany) May 28, 1852 Vaccinations made Compulsory Period: May 28, 1854 to May 28, 1856 Crimean War May 28, 1859 Nightingale | Notes on Nursing Published May 28, 1860 Nightingale School for Nurses Founded May 28, 1861 Pasteur | Germ Theory Published May 28, 1861 Kings College Trained Nurses May 28, 1865 Blackwell | First Woman Doctor May 28, 1872 Blackwell | Founded New Hospital for Women May 28, 1874 Blackwell | Helped set up London School of Medicine for Women May 28, 1875 Koch | Investigated Bacteria and Disease Link May 28, 1875 Public Health Act 2 May 28, 1876 Act allowing Women Doctors May 28, 1879 Pasteur | Chicken Cholera Vaccination May 28, 1882 Koch | Discovered TB causing Microbes May 28, 1883 Koch | Discovered Cholera causing Microbes Period: May 28, 1899 to May 28, 1901 Boer War May 28, 1901 Landsteiner May 28, 1902 Midwives Act May 28, 1902 Curie | X-Rays May 28, 1907 Health Visitors for Pregnant Women May 28, 1909 Hata | Discovered Salvarsan 606 (M.B.1) May 28, 1910 Proven that Chemical Drugs can Target and Kill Illnesses May 28, 1911 National Insurance Act Period: May 28, 1914 to May 28, 1918 WWI May 28, 1919 Ministry of Health Founded May 28, 1919 Nursing Act May 28, 1928 Fleming | Discovered Penicillin Mould May 28, 1929 Fleming | Penicillin work Published May 28, 1931 Electron Microscopes May 28, 1932 Domagk | Discovered Prontosil (M.B.2) May 28, 1938 3,000 Infant Deaths from Diphtheria Period: May 28, 1939 to May 28, 1945 WWII May 28, 1940 Florey & Chain | Tested Penicillin on Mice May 28, 1941 Florey & Chain | Tested Penicillin on Humans May 28, 1942 Beveridge Report May 28, 1948 NHS May 28, 1951 Prescription Charges May 28, 1953 Watson & Crick | Discovered Structure of DNA May 28, 1979 W.H.O. | Smallpox Eradicated Mar 2, 2022 First Medical School | Salerno
