2.1 Flashcards
- “Father f Medicine”
- author of Hippocratic Oath
- advocated tasting of urine and listening to lungs
Hippocrates
- Greek physician and philosopher
- described diabetes as “diarrhea of urine”
Galen
They both instigated a qualitative assessment of the disorder through the measurement of body fluids
Hippocrates and Galen
Four Humors:
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile
- 1st to observe Ebers Papyrus
- 3 stages of hookworm infection
- described intestinal parasites
Vivian Herrick
Types of Intestinal Parasites
Taenia Saginata - flatworm; raw beef
Taenia Solium - hookworm; raw pork
Ascaris - roundworm; pigs
- Introduced the profession of Medical Technology
- Believed that MT began from medieval Period
Professor M. Ruth Williams
Believed MT started in 14th century with an Italian physician at the University of Bologna
Anne Fagelson
- hired by Italian professor at the University of Bologna
- 1st MT
- 1st to perform lab tests
- died of lab-acquired infections
Alessandra Giliani
- an Italian physician, anatomist, and professor of surgery
Mondino de Liuzzi
A Dutch lens maker who invented the first compound microscope
Zacharias Janssen
- greatest early microscopist; Embryology and Anatomy
- founder of microscopical anatomy, Histology
- father of Physiology and Embryology
Marcello Malpighi
- One of the youngest medical specialists who founded in Berlin the archives in pathology
- Scientific Contribution to Cell Theory
Rudolf Virchow
- Father of Microbiology and Microscopy
- invented the first functional microscope to describe red blood cells and protozoa, and classify the shape of bacteria
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
- discovered vaccination to establish immunity to smallpox; great contribution to Immunology
Edward Jenner
- made several means of collecting evidence to diagnose his patients
- found a majority of the diagnosis consisted of laboratory findings
- helped to issue the Apothecaries Act of 1815
Dr. William Occam
- made physical findings before and after death: Anatomical Pathology
- followed by a determination of the cause of disease: Bacteriology
Baron Karl von Humboldt
Invented spirometer to measure the vital capacity of the lungs
John Hutchinson
Invented sphygmomanometer to measure blood pressure
Jules Herrison