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- First Public Health Act
- 1848
- Koch creates rabies vaccine
- 1885
- Second Public Health Act
- 1875
- Galen
- 2nd century AD
- Germ Theory
- 1861
- Simpson's Chloroform
- 1847
- Vesalius' Fabric of the Human Body
- 1543
- Harvey 'On the ciculation of the Blood and the Motion of the Heart'.
- 1628
- Rontgen's discovery of X-rays
- 1895
- Black Period of Surgery
- 1870s
- Salvarsan 606
- 1909
- Discovery of penicillin by Fleming
- 1928
- Development of Penicillin by Florey and Chain
- 1938-1944
- Prontosil
- 1932
- Koch discovers the tuberculosis bacterium
- 1882
- Harold Gillies
- First World War
- Edward Jenner
- 1798 (18th century)
- Aqueducts
- Roman times
- Patent medicines
- 19th century
- Discovery of DNA
- 1953
- First day of NHS
- 5th July 1948
- National Insurance Act
- 1911
- Beveridge Report
- 1942
- First test of penicillin on a human patient
- 1941
- The Great Stink
- 1858
- Bazalgette's sewers opened
- 1875
- Chadwick's Report
- 1842
- Crimean War
- 1854-56
- Nightingale's 'Notes on Nursing' published
- 1859
- First training school for nurses set up by Nightingale
- 1860
- Lister's use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic
- 1867
- Queen Victoria uses chloroform
- 1857
- Education Act (helped to bring in Second Public Health Act)
- 1870
- The Government's collection of statistics of births, marriages and deaths begins.
- 1837
- Cholera arrives in Britain
- 1831
- Broad St. epidemic
- 1854
- Hippocrates
- 5th century BC