1 - HISTORY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Flashcards
1550 BC
Vivian Herrick
Intestinal parasites mentioned in early writings:
Taenia
Ascaris
- Book for treatment
- Describes Hookworm (3 stages)
- HAT – Hookworm, Ascaris, Taenia
- First three parasites discovered during this time
Ebers Papyrus
300 BC-180 AD
Hippocrates
- Father of Medicine
- Proposed a method of disease assessment via measurement of 4 humors
Hippocrates
4 humors
Yellow Bile
Black Bile
Blood
Phlegm
Hippocrates Advocacy
- Advocates examination of urine to diagnose disease (Urinalysis) (Bubbles, Blood, Pus)
- Tasting patient’s urine, listening to lungs, and observing skin color
Medieval Europe
Uroscopy (water casting)
a wheel diagram that linked the color of the urine to a particular disease
Uroscopy (water casting)
The first book for urinalysis was written (color, density, and quality)
900 AD
- M. Ruth William – wrote the Introduction to Profession of Medical Technology
- Quack doctors
- Urinalysis was a fad practice
- Hindu Doctors Diabetes
- Formulated urine had a sweetish taste due to attraction with ants
1096-1438
- Mondino de Liuzzi (Italian Physician at University of Bologna) - Public dissection of human cadavers
- Alessandra Giliani (Assistant MT) - The first woman to practice Anatomy and Pathology; Died of laboratory acquired infection (LAI)
- Hepatitis B – most common blood borne pathogen
14th Century (Anna Fagelson)
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
17th Century (1632-1723)
- Considered as the Father of Microbiology
- RBC, Protozoa, and Bacteria (shape)
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Marcelo Malphigi
1628-1694
- Greatest of early microscopists
- Founder of Pathology
Anatomy
Physiology
Histology
Embryology
Marcelo Malphigi
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow
1821-1902
- Father of Modern Pathology
- Founded the archives of Pathology in Berlin
- Works on the Cell Theory
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow
first quantitative test for the presence of sugar in urine
Fehling’s Test
inventor of Fehling’s Test
Hermann von Fehling
Aniline Dyes
19th Century
first dye that was used to stain bacteria
Aniline Dyes