History Flashcards
✓ The application of the principles of natural, physical, and biological sciences to the performance of laboratory procedures which aid in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
HEINEMANN
✓ The branch of medicine concerned with the performance of laboratory determinations and analysis used in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and maintenance of health
FAGELSON
✓ Health profession concerned with performing laboratory analyses in view of obtaining information necessary in the diagnosis and treatment of disease as well as in the maintenance of good health.
WALTERS
An auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine which deals with the examination of tissues, secretion and excretion of the human body and body fluids by various electronic, chemical, microscopic and other medical laboratory procedures or techniques either manual or automated which will aid the physician in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and in the promotion of health in general
R.A. 5527
- Known as the Father of MEDICINE
- Formulated the code of ethics for
practicing Physicians - Hence the Hippocratic Oath of
physicians
Hippocrates
he describe the four “humors” or body fluids in man
1. Blood
2. Phlegm
3. Yellow bile
4. Black bile
Hippocrates
- Strongly believes that medical technology may be traced in back in 1550 BC.
Vivian Herrick
(Tao)
There are traces of the beginning of medical technology when intestinal parasites such as Taenia and Ascaris were first identified and were mention in writings.
Vivian Herrick
- have descriptions of the 3 stages of
hookworm infection - an Egyptian herbal book
Ebers Papyrus
- Founder of Pathology
- Described as the “Greatest of the early microscopist”
- discovered capilliaries
Marcelo Malphigi/Malphigi (1628-1640)
- one of the youngest medical specialists
- founded the archives of pathology in berlin in 1847
- established cellular pathology
Rudolf Virchow
- performed the first quantitative test in urine sugar
- Before there is only the physical examination of urine, not until he performed quantifying of sugar in urine
Herman Fehling
- Invented the first functional microscope
- First to describe the red blood cells, see protozoa and classify bacteria according to shape
- invention of microscope led to the rapid progress of microbiology and pathology
- father of bacteriology and protozoology
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Looked into his own stool using a microscope and found Giardia lamblia that can cause diarrhea
(frothy diarrhea –> many fats)
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
- pioneered clinical cytology
- found diff. structure of diff. cancer
Johannes Muller
described circulation of blood
William Harvey
Discovered the major blood groups in 1909 and received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Medicine for this achievement
- ABO (1909) RH(1940)
Karl Landsteiner
- Proposed a primitive version of the “germ theory,” which was validated 300 years later by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur. Koch also discovered the tubercle bacillus as the causative agent of tuberculosis
16th century – Girolamo Fracastoro
(1ST CLINICAL LAB)
✓Opened in 1896 at ___________
✔In this laboratory, routine examinations were carried out, special attention being given to the search for malarial parasites in the blood.
John Hopkins Hospital by Dr. William Osler
✓ wrote the book: A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
DR. JAMES C. TODD
RETITLE OF A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods
Introduced the MT Practice after World War II
26TH MEDICAL LABORATORY OF THE 6TH US ARMY
FIRST CLINICAL LABORATORY IN THE PHILIPPINES
Manila Public Health Laboratory at 208, Quiricada Street Sta. Cruz, Manila
Formally organized the Manila Public Health Laboratory
Dr. Pio de Roda & Dr. Mariano Icasiano
Training of high school graduates to work as medical technicians
DR. PIO DE RODA and DR. PRUDENCIA STA. ANA
Prepared the syllabus for the six (6) months laboratory training
DR. PRUDENCIA STA. ANA
First MT School
PHILIPPINE UNION COLLEGE AND MANILA SANITARIUM
First graduate of PUC (1956)
DR. JESSE UMALI
Organized PASMETH
DR. GUSTAVO REYES
DR. SERAFIN JULIANO
Organized PAMET (Father of PAMET), DATE
MR. CRISANTO ALMARIO, SEPTEMBER 15,1963
(Date)
First National PAMET convention
September 20, 1964
First PAMET President
CHARLEMAGNE TAMONDONG
Celebration of MT Profession
3RD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER
PAMET LOGO
Circle
Triangle
Microscope and Snake
Green
1963
(PAMET LOGO)
symbolizes the continuous involvement where practice and education must always be integrated; continuous education
Circle
(PAMET LOGO)
trilogy of LOVE, RESPECT and INTEGRITY
Triangle