Modern Medicine

Modern Medicine Florence Nightingale - Founder of modern nursing Louis Pasteur - Father of microbiology Sigmund Freud - founder of psychoanalysis Sir Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin - Polio vaccine Ambroise Pare - father of modern surgery Francis Crick and James Watson - discovered the structure of DNA Hippocrates - Father of medicine Robert Koch - Father of Medical microbiology Edward Jenner - Smallpox vaccine ancient - Disease= punishment from gods; spirits, and herbs and plants were medicine Middle - Majority of population died from disease and plague, practice of medicine was prohibited. Modern - Introduced women healthcare, Dissection of human body started contemporary - Major advancement of medical, research, treatments, and technology. Medical potential is endless Ancient time - 4000BCE - 400CE, 20-30 years Middle time - 400CE - 1400CE, 20-35 years Modern time - 1400CE - 1945CE, 40-60 years Contemporary time - 1945CE - Today, 60-80 years