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 Working-class parents accused of murdering their children |
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| Babies watched by Death
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| Helmholtz invents ophthalmoscope |
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1851 |
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| Principle of Helmholtz's ophthalmoscope
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| London builds Europe's largest lunatic asylum |
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1851 |
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| Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum
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| Hypodermic syringe |
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1853 |
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| Alexander Wood's hypodermic syringe
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| John Snow stops cholera epidemic |
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1854 |
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| ‘A court for King Cholera ...'
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| First cottage hospital founded in Surrey |
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1859 |
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| Cranleigh Village Hospital, Surrey, England
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| Florence Nightingale establishes Training School for Nurses |
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| Florence Nightingale at Scutari
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| Rise of the pharmaceutical industry |
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c. 1860 |
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| Bottling castor oil
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| Hospitals become key sites for medical science |
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| Laboratory class, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
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| Semmelweis washes hands to save life |
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1861 |
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| The dissecting room
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| Prince Albert dies of typhoid |
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| Death of Prince Albert
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| Joseph Lister invents antisepsis |
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| Victoria Ward, King's College Hospital
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| 30% of deaths in England and Wales caused by eight infectious diseases |
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| Over London by rail
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| Mendel publishes theory of inheritance |
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1866 |
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| Gregor Mendel in his monastery
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| Gastroscopy on sword-swallower |
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1868 |
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| Examination using a rigid endoscope
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| Laws against suicide repealed in UK |
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1870 |
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| Gin-mad girl throws herself from a bridge
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| Measles in Fiji |
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1875 |
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| Medicine man, Australia
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| Surgeons adopt aseptic techniques |
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| Operating theatre at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London
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| Koch discovers TB bacillus |
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1882 |
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| Tuberculosis bacilli in sputum, c.1985
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| Centrifuge separates cream |
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1883 |
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| Centrifuge
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| Robert Lawson Tait operates for ruptured ectopic pregnancy |
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1883 |
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| Foetus in Fallopian tube, 1719
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| Pasteur inoculates with rabies vaccine |
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1885 |
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| Jupille struggling with a rabid dog
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| Cremation introduced in Britain |
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1885 |
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| William Price of Llantrisant
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| Roentgen discovers X-rays |
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1895 |
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| Roentgen's X-ray of his wife's hand
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| Ross pins blame on mosquito |
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1897 |
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