| 2730 BC |
Ancient Egyptian Civilisation |
Imhotep |
Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| 500 BC |
Ancient Greek Civilisation |
Pythagoras |
Traditional Indian Medicine |
| 377 BC |
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Hippocrates |
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| 332 BC |
Alexandria founded |
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| 322 BC |
Roman Empire |
Aristotle |
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| 199 Ad |
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Galen |
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| 400 |
Medieval Medicine |
The Dark Ages |
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| 800 |
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Arabic Empire |
| 1037 |
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Avicenna |
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| 1200 |
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Mongol Empire |
| 1300 |
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The Black Death |
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Paré |
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Vesalius |
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| 1600 |
Renaissance Medicine |
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Harvey |
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| 1665 |
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Great Plague of London |
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| 1666 |
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Great Fire of London |
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| 1762 |
Age of Enlightenment |
Lady Montagu |
Inoculation |
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Jenner |
Vaccination |
| 1831 |
Industrial Revolution |
First case of Cholera in UK |
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| 1842 |
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Edwin Chadwick's Report |
Public Health Act 1848 |
| 1850 |
Development of Modern Surgery |
Anaesthetics |
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| 1854 |
Crimean War |
Florence Nightingale |
Mary Jane Seacole |
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John Snow |
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Miranda Stewart Barry |
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| 1865 |
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
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| 1874 |
London School of Medicine for Women founded |
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| 1895 |
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Louis Pasteur |
Germ Theory |
| 1895 |
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Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie Curie |
Discovery of X-rays |
| 1900 |
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Karl Landsteiner |
Discovery of Blood Groups |
| 1902 |
Boer War |
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Joseph Lister |
Antisepsis |
| 1906 |
Liberal Government Reforms |
School Meals |
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| 1909 |
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Old Age Pension Act |
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| 1911 |
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National Insurance Act |
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| 1910 |
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Koch |
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| 1908 |
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Becquerel |
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Alexander Fleming |
Discovery of Penicillin |
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First World War |
Advance of Plastic Surgery |
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| 1942 |
Beveridge Report |
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| 1948 |
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The National Health Service (NHS) |
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| 1953 |
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Description of Structure of DNA |
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Medicine Through Time