Medicine Through Times Dates Quiz

What year was the Black Death?

What happened in 1343?

When did William Harvey publish his theory on the heart?

What happened in 1665?

What year was the Great Fire of London?

What year did Jenner test his smallpox vaccine on 8 year-old James Phipps?

What year did Jenner publish his findings?

What year did the smallpox vaccine become compulsory?

What happens in 1871?

When is the first public health act passed?

By 1853, how many towns had set up boards of health?

What year was the second public health act passed?

When did James Simpson work out chloroform knocks people out?

Which year did the Boer War begin?

What year did the Boer War end?

What year was the Great Stink?

In what year did Bazalgette finish his sewers?

How long were Bazalgette's sewers?

In what year did Pasteur publish Germ Theory?

In what year did Koch discover the microbe causing Anthrax?

In what year did John Snow make his discovery that Cholera is waterborne?

In what year did Lister start to use carbolic acid as an antiseptic?

In what year was the Reform Act passed?

In what year did the government set up an inquiry in public health led by Chadwick

In what year was Chadwick's report published?

In what year did Koch discover the microbes causing Tuberculosis?

How many people died in the 1831 cholera outbreak?

In what year did Garrett Anderson become the first woman to be appointed to a medical post?

In what year did Koch discover the microbe causing cholera?

In what year did Pasteur discover a vaccine for Chicken Cholera?

In what year did Seacole publish her autobiography?

In what year did Pasteur discover a vaccine for anthrax?

How many people died in the 1854 outbreak of cholera?

When was the Crimean War?

In what year did Florence Nightingale arrive in Scutari to help in the Crimean War with a team of 38 nurses?

In what year did Pasteur discover a vaccine for Rabies?

How many people died in the 1837 outbreak of cholera?

What year is the structure of DNA found?

When were blood groups discovered?

What year did Beveridge propose a free health service?

What year does the government propose a free and comprehensive health service?

When does the national Service act provide a free and comprehensive health care system?

In what year is the first day of the NHS?

When is 5-a-day adopted by the government?

When year was 'Tobacco misuse and lung carcinoma’ by Franz Hermann Muller of the University of Cologne is the first major report to find a strong link between smoking and lung cancer?

In what year is there a massive increase (43%) in cigarette tax which results in a drop in cigarette consumption among British men?

What percentage is the drop in cigarette consumption by?

In what year are cigarette advertisements banned on TV?

When are restrictions are imposed on other cigarette advertising?

In what year does the total number of deaths from lung cancer decreased for the first time for more than half a century (in men only)?

When was national No Smoking day launched in the UK?

In what year was smoking banned in all enclosed public places in England?

In what year were large shops in England, Wales and Northern Ireland prevented from displaying tobacco products and cigarette sales form vending machines prohibited?

In what year was the national insurance act passed?

In what year are pensions set up for people over 70?

In what year does Fleming discover penicillin?

In what year do Florey and Chain begin work on penicillin?

When do Florey and Chain test their penicillin powder on 8 mice?

When do Florey and Chain test their penicillin powder on a human?

In what year does America enter the war and soon make grants available to firms wishing to make penicillin?

In what year does the mass production of penicillin begin in the UK?

In which decade does A new building programme begin to replace some out of date hospitals?

In what year did Lewisohn added sodium citrate to stop blood clotting?

In what year did Rous and Turner use citrate glucose solution so blood could be kept for longer?

In what year is the first blood depot used in the Battle of Cambrai?

In what year did Rowntree name types of poverty?