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| 1785 |
| | William Withering's Account of the Foxglove describes the use of digitalis for dropsy, and its possible application to heart disease | |
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| 1796 |
| | In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination | |
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| 1796 |
| | German physician Samuel Hahnemann coins the term 'homeopathy' and describes this new approach to medicine | |
| | Conflict between homeopathic and allopathic medicine Wellcome Library, London
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| 1816 |
| | René Laënnec, reluctant to press his ear to the chest of a young female patient, finds a solution in the stethoscope | |
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| 1828 |
| | William Burke and William Hare murder 16 victims and sell their bodies to the Edinburgh Medical School for anatomical study | |
| | Execution of William Burke Wellcome Library, London
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| 1832 |
| | The USA suffers the first of several cholera epidemics, spanning the sixty years to 1892 | |
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| 1846 |
| | A dentist in Boston, William Morton, uses ether as an anaesthetic while surgeon John Collins Warren removes a tumour in a patient's neck | |
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| 1847 |
| | Scottish obstetrician James Simpson uses anaesthetic (ether, and later in the year choloroform) to ease difficulty in childbirth | |
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| 1847 |
| | James Young Simpson is the first to deliver a baby (christened Anaesthesia) using chloroform | |
| | First child born under anaesthesia
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| 1851 |
| | German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz invents the ophthalmoscope, making it possible for a doctor to examine the inside of a patient's eye | |
| | Principle of Helmholtz's ophthalmoscope Wellcome Library, London
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