Medicine Timeline

Timeline 1848 - 1948: 

1847:

• Chloroform first used and invented by James Simpson

• -Problems-: Dosage could not be controlled and patients died from heart problems

1848:

• 1st public health act 

• The government didn’t force local authorities to act. The act of public health was NOT compulsory

• Star of Cholera Epidemic

• 15 year old hannah greener died from an overdosage of chloroform during a toenail removal

1849:

• End of Cholera epidemic 

• Elizabeth Blackwell became the first women in America to earn the M.D. degree.

1853:

• Queen victoria popularised chloroform in childbirth of her 8th child

• Chloroform Inhaler invented by Dr John Snow to control dosage, reducing number of deaths from heart problems

• Opposition: some believe God wants us to feel pain, especially in childbirth, people didn't trust new ideas as they don't know all the effects of it

• Vaccinations against smallpox made compulsory 

1854:

• John snow’s work

• He blames dirty water for Cholera

• Start of the Crimean war 

• Florence Nightingale goes to Scutari - november 

1855:

• Nuisance removal act - stopped overcrowding in house

1858:

• The great stink

• Goverment enlists Bazalgette

1859:

• Elizabeth Blackwell was registered as the first female doctor after qualifying in the US 

• Notes for nursing was published by florence nightingale 

1860:

• Nightingale training school for nurses opened 

• Elizabeth Garrett trained as a nurse and gave lectures to trainee doctors at Middlesex hospital.

• Male students at Middlesex hospital protested Garrett shouldn't be able to give lectures.

• British Medical Association changed rules saying only university graduates could become doctors.

1861:

• Pasteur’s germ theory was published

1864:

• Factory act - improved factory conditions 

1865:

• Cholera epidemic 

1866:

• Bazalgette’s Sewers finished 

• Sanitary act - local councils responsible for sewafe, water,…