Individuals
The man who discovered in 1847 that chloroform could be used as an anaesthetic.
Who is James Simpson
This discovery was made by infecting patients with cowpox to induce immunity to smallpox
What is vaccination
The date the printing press was invented
What is 1440
The town in Derbyshire that quarantined itself during the Great Plague of 1665
What is Eyam
This event helped Florence Nightingale devise her ideas about sanitary, pavilion plan hospitals.
What is the Crimean War
This man performed public dissections to discover over 300 mistakes in Galen's theories of anatomy.
Who is Andreas Vesalius
In 1865 this discovery was made during a surgery on a broken leg when bandages were soaked in carbolic acid.
What is antiseptic
The date William Harvey published his theory about the circulation of the blood
What is 1628
This cracked object caused the cholera-infected sewage to leek into the water supply in Broad Street
What is a cesspit
The founding of this organisation in 1660 helped spread new medical ideas around the world
What is the Royal Society
This man was the first to successfully identify the different germs causing many common diseases
Who is Robert Koch
This discovery was made after watching how fire engine pumps were used to pump water.
What is the circulation of the blood
The date Pasteur finally proved his theory of infection (different from the date he came up with it)
What is 1878
The physician who gave Queen Victoria chloroform during the birth of Prince Leopold
Who is John Snow
This event led to increased support for inoculation, especially among those who wanted to copy the example of the upper classes
What is Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's inoculation of her son in 1718
This Renaissance man theorised that disease was spread through seeds in the air.
Who is Girolamo Frascatoro
The discovery of the New World in the 15th century meant that diseases were exchanged between Europeans and North and South Americans. What two diseases in particular were exchanged?
What are Smallpox and venereal syphilis
Date of the Great Stink
What is 1858
The number of miles of sewer that were built in London by 1865
This event led to a shift in hospital ownership in England between the church and the state.
This man published Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Working Classes and said that cities needed clean water and sewage disposal
Who is Edwin Chadwick
In performing dissections, Vesalius discovered that there were no holes in this part of the human anatomy, meaning that blood needed to travel somewhere else in the body.
What is the interventricular septum
Date Florence Nightingale's school for nurses was established at St. Thomas' Hospital.
What is 1860
This was the cause of the blue skin of cholera patients
The publication of this book in 1543 was influential in moving medicine away from the ideas of Galen
What is On the Fabric of the Human Body