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25 Cards in this Set
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C.3500 BC
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Writing Developed
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C.1000 BC
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Four Humours - Hippocrates
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129 AD
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Theory of Opposites - Galen
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C.430 AD
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Roman Empire collapses leading to the 'Dark Ages'.
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1348
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THE BLACK DEATH
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C.1500
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Renaissence period
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1665
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Great Plague
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1720
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Innoculation introduced to Britan.
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1796
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First Vaccination by Edward Jenner.
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1842
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Chadwick Report
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1847
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Anaesthetics - Simpson
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1848
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First public Health act
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1853
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Vaccinations are made complusory by the goverment.
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1854
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John Snow discovered the link with Cholera and contaminated water.
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1861
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GERM THEORY - Louis Pasteur
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1860
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Nightingale sets up a school for nursing.
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1870
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Anthrax identified by Kock by carrying out an experiment on mice.
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1890
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Antiseptics are in general use.
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1895
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X-Rays found by Roentgen which made surgery easier as in the war bullets were easily removed by identifying where abouts ther bullet was in the body.
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1900/1
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Blood groups found by Karl Landsteiner. This improved surgey as are able to carry out blood transplants.
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1928
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Penicillin is discovered by Fleming by chance but didnt have the resources to make enough of it.
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1939 - 45
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WW2
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1942
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Beveridge Report
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1948
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NHS founded
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1945
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End of WW2
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