Medicine through Time
Explore Medicine through Time on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Black Death (1346)
- NHS founded (1948)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Galen (129)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Cholera epidemic of 1854 / John Snow (1854)
- Florey and Chain mass-produce penicillin (1941)
- Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543)
- Theory of the Four Humours (400 BCE)
- John Snow removes the Broad Street pump handle (1854)
- Harvey describes the circulation of the blood (1628)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Louis Pasteur (1822)
- James Simpson introduces chloroform (1847)
- Public Health Act 1875 (1875)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Doll and Hill link smoking to lung cancer (1950)
- Watson and Crick discover DNA structure (1953)
- Ehrlich's Salvarsan 606, the first magic bullet (1909)
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Hippocrates (460 BCE)
- Beveridge Report (1942)
- Florence Nightingale at Scutari (1854)
- Edwin Chadwick's Sanitary Report (1842)
- Discovery of X-rays (1895)
- Koch identifies the tuberculosis bacterium (1882)
- Vaccination made compulsory in Britain (1853)
- Black Death in England (1348)