history B edexcel gcse medicine through time 6th june am exam Watch

(Original post by Salamander Ass)
Not sure about the predictions but memorise key dates and individuals and that'll pretty much help you through the exam if youre good at fluff talking

i personally find memrise useful:

http://www.memrise.com/course/266711...-gcse-history/

also a list of key dates:
900AD – First university medical school in Europe set up
1348 – Black Death
1543 – Vesalius publishes ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’
1575 – Pare publishes ‘Works on Surgery’
1628 – Harvey publishes ‘An anatomic account of the Motion of the Heart and theBlood in Animals’
1665 – The Great Plague
1798 – Edward Jenner presents his findings on the Smallpox vaccine to the RoyalSociety
1805 – Napoleon vaccinated all his soldiers
1816 – Stethoscope invented
1832 – Anatomy Act
1830s-1860s – Cholera epidemics
1842 – Edwin Chadwick wrote ‘A report on the Sanitary Conditions of theLabouring population’
1947 – James Simpson experiments with chloroform on his dinner guests
1848 – Public Health Act
1852 – Vaccination against Smallpox was made compulsory in Britain
1854 – John Snow discovered cholera was caused by contaminated water
Crimean War started(Nightingale reduces deaths in army hospitals)
1859 – Florence Nightingale publishes ‘Notes on Nursing’
1861 – Louis Pasteur publishes ‘Germ theory’
1867 – Lister performs first operations with Carbolic Acid
1875 – Public Health Act
1876 – Act of Parliament allowed women to enter medical professions
1878 – Koch discovered the bacterium which caused Septicaemia
All surgical instrumentssteam sterilised
1882 – Robert Koch discovers the cause of TB (1883 – Cholera)
Pasteur develops vaccinefor rabies
1894 – sterilised rubber gloves used for the first time
1895 – Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays
1900 – Doctors had to have a medical degree and be accepted by the GeneralMedical Council to become a practising doctor
1901 – Different blood groups discovered
1902 – Midwives act
1905 – Paul Ehrlich discovers the first magic bullet (Salverson 606)
1909 – Back to back houses banned
1911 – National Health Insurance introduced
1914-1918 – WW1 – X-rays / skin grafts / blood transfusions
1919 – Nursing Act and set up of the Ministry of health
1928 – Alexander Fleming discovered properties of penicillin
1930s – Slum clearance
1932 – Gerhardt Domagk discovers the second magic bullet – Protosil
1941 – First human trial of penicillin
1942 – Beveridge report
1948 – NHS set up
1953 – Crick and Watson discover DNA
1956 – Clean air act