This bullet point revision contents listed file cover Medicine Through Time under Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History.
Timeline of Medicine Through Time
- 1348 – The Black Death
- 1440 – The Printing press invented
- 1500 – Theory of the Four Humours started being rejected
- 1543 – ‘On the Fabrics of the Human Body’ published by Vesalius
- 1578 – Elizabeth I’s Plague Orders
- 1604 – The Plague Act of 1604
- 1628 – Harvey’s theory about the circulation of blood
- 1660 – First meeting of the Royal Society
- 1665-66 – The Great Plague
- 1676 – ‘Observations Medicae’ published by Sydenham
- 1798 – Jenner’s vaccination to smallpox published
- 1832 – Central Board of Health set up
- 1842 – Government enquiry into sanitary conditions
- 1847 – Simpson used chloroform as anaesthetic
- 1848 – Public Health Act
- 1853 – Nightingale’s work in Crimea
- 1854 – Snow proved cholera spread in water
- 1861 – Pasteur’s Germ Theory
- 1878 – Koch’s work on microbes
- 1896 – X-rays used in radiology departments
- 1900 – Government took responsibility for health care
- 1914 – Start of WWI
- 1915 – Chlorine gas first used, phosgene gas used
- 1915-16 – Advancements made in storage of blood
- 1917 – First use of mustard gas
- 1928 – Fleming identifies penicillin
- 1939 – Florey and Chain revive research
- 1942 – Penicillin mass produced
- 1948 – NHS launched
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