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Edward Jenner is born.
Jenner is born in Berekely, England to Reverand Stephan and Sarah Jenner. -
Jenner studies with his first surgeon, Mr. Ludlow
On his 14th birthday, Edward went to work with Mr.Ludlow. Jenner followed the surgeon around pulling teeth, amputating, etc. -
Jenner goes to study in London with John Hunter.
John Hunter was a very expirienced surgeon and taught Edward almost everything he knew. -
Jenner 1st becomes interested in smallpox and cowpox tie
While Edward was studying with Mr. Ludlow, he talked to a milkmaid named Sarah about how the smallpox had hit that town but she wasn't affected. She said she thought it was because she already had cowpox. -
Jenner finishes his studies.
When John Hunter finished teachingEdward everything he needed to know, Jenner went back to Berekely and became a country doctor. -
The smallpox epidemic returns!
This is when people started panicing about smallpox again. This is also when Jenner becomes reinterested in what the milkmaid Sarah told him. -
Jenner was ready to vaccinate but the cowpox vanished.
Jenner had finally finished his studies and was ready to start vaccinating people when all of a sudden cowpox disappeared. It vanished from dairy farms everywhere nearby. But Jenner kept everything in order in case it returned and sure enough it did. Here's how the vaccination would work. Jenner would take the cowpox pus and inject it into someone. Then, once the person got the cowpox and had fully recovered (a month or two) Jenner would then inject the smallpox into them and see if they got it. -
First vaccination was done.
Jenner had finally done it. After years upon years of studying, Jenner had actually put into play and proved things about vaccination. The 8 year old boy, named James Phipps, was the son of one of the people that had worked for Jenner in the past. The cowpox disease was taken out of a 19 year old milkmaid named Sarah Nelmes. -
Government gives Jenner $20,000 to support his research
Jenner got 20,000 dollars to send information to other doctors around the world, to keep the vaccination process going, to travel to teach doctors, etc. -
Government gives Edward $10,000 to support his studies.
See "Government gives Jenner $20,000 to support his research". -
John Snow is born
John Snow was born in York, England -
Louis Pasteur is born
Born in Dole, Jura, France -
Edward Jenner dies
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April 5, 1827, Joseph Lister is born
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Robert Koch was born on December 11, 1843.
Robert Koch was born on December 11, 1843, at Clausthal in the Upper Harz Mountains. The son of a mining engineer. -
John Snow makes a book on anesthetic
John Snow Writes up a book and publishes it on the inhalation of ether as an anesthetic. -
Pasteur becomes famous for his work on the structure of crystals
Pasteur's first discovery was understanding the structure of crystals. He soon became famous and spread his ideas around. -
John Snow Makes his Map
John Snow completes his Cholera Map of London -
Lister becomes James Syme's apprentice
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John Snow Discovers Broad St Water Pump is Cause of Cholera
John Snow figures out that the Broad Street water pump is spreading Cholera and removes the handle. Then what happens? -
Lister begins to study blood coagulation
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John Snow dies
John Snow DIES!!!!!! What does he die of? -
Pasteur discovers why wine becomes bitter
Soon after working on crystals, Pasteur starts work on mocrobes, and why wine becomes bitter. He discovred that wine becomes bitter becaus of microbes that enter in the wine when it is being made. -
Joseph Lister spent 8 years at the Royal infirmary making antiseptic surgery
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Koch went to the University of Göttingen.
In 1862 Koch went to the University of Göttingen to study medicine. Here the Professor of Anatomy was Jacob Henle and Koch was, no doubt, influenced by Henle's view. -
Louis Pasteur publishes
Publishes his information on the Germ Theory. -
Lister learns of microorganisms from Louis Pasteur
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Joseph Lister's first success with carbolic acid
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Lister starts to use carbolic acid to wash hands, instruments, and bandages
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Pasteur starts work on Silkworm Disease
During the big silkworm epidemic, Pasteur developed a cure for the silkworms. Because of this, he saved the silkworm industry. -
Lister presented the use of carbolic acid
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Koch's work was published in a botanical journal.
1876 Koch's work published in the botanical journal of which his friend was the editor, Koch immediately became famous due to his anthrax experiments. -
Lister tied broken bones with silver wire
Lister uses sterilized silver wire to tie broken bones together. The wire was left inside the patient. -
Lister's first surgery under antiseptic conditions
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Lister introduced the catgut ligature
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Appointed a member of the «Reichs-Gesundheitsamt» (Imperial Health Bureau) in Berlin.
1880, when he was appointed a member of the «Reichs-Gesundheitsamt» (Imperial Health Bureau) in Berlin, that he was provided, first with a narrow, inadequate room, and later with a better laboratory, in which he could work with Loeffler, Gaffky and others, as his assistants. -
Pasteur starts new research
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In 1882 Koch published his tubercle bacillus journal.
In 1882 Koch published his classical work on his tubercle bacillus. -
He was sent to Egypt as Leader of the German Cholera Commission.
He was sent, in 1883, to Egypt as Leader of the German Cholera Commission, to investigate an outbreak of cholera in that country. Here he discovered the vibrio that causes cholera and brought back pure cultures of it to Germany. He also studied cholera in India. -
Lister is knighted by Queen Victoria
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Koch was appointed Professor of Hygiene
In 1885 Koch was appointed Professor of Hygiene in the University of Berlin and Director of the newly established Institute of Hygiene in the University there. -
Pasteur's vaccine for is succsessful
The vaccine for rabies he developed for Joseph Meister was succsessful, and Meister was cured -
Joseph Lister retires
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Lister becomes president of the Royal Court
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Pasteur dies
Died from complications from a series of strokes -
Koch went to South Africa to study the origin of rinderpest.
In 1896 Koch went to South Africa to study the origin of rinderpest and although he did not identify the cause of this disease, he succeeded in limiting the outbreak of it by injection into healthy farm-stock of bile taken from the gall bladders of infected animals. -
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
In 1905 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In 1906, he returned to Central Africa to work on the control of human trypanosomiasis, and there he reported that atoxyl is as effective against this disease as quinine is against malaria. -
Koch dies on May 27, 1910, in Baden-Baden.
Dr. Koch died on May 27, 1910, in Baden-Baden. -
Joseph Lister dies
