Key Dates (Reverse) (Medicine)

Question 1

Louis Pasteur discovered Germ Theory

Answer 1

1861

Question 2

Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin

Answer 2

1928

Question 3

Black Death

Answer 3

1348

Question 4

Edward Jenner discovered smallpox vaccine

Answer 4

1796

Question 5

James Simpson used Chloroform as an anaesthetic

Answer 5

1847

Question 6

William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood

Answer 6

1628

Question 7

Salvarsan 606 was discovered as the first magic bullet and the first Chemical Cure

Answer 7

1909

Question 8

NHS was set up

Answer 8

1948

Question 9

Vesalius’s book ‘Fabric of the Human Body’ was released

Answer 9

1543

Question 10

First Public Health Act

Answer 10

1876

Question 11

Pare

Answer 11

1510

Question 12

Great Plague

Answer 12

1665

Question 13

The Crimean War

Answer 13

1853-56

Question 14

Florence Nightingale makes ‘Notes on Nursing’

Answer 14

1859

Question 15

National Insurance Act

Answer 15

1911

Question 16

X-rays were invented by Wilhelm

Answer 16

1895

Question 17

Karl Landsteiner discovers Blood Groups

Answer 17

1901

Question 18

John Hunter set up the College of Physicians

Answer 18

1518