History of Medical Technology Flashcards
At what age do diseases are treated as works of evil spirits?
Stone age
At what age do priests are treated as healers and exorcists?
Bronze age
At what age do diseases were seen as punishments from the gods?
Bronze age
Nature was the most powerful medicine during this age.
Iron age
Who is the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
What is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the western world?
Hippocratic oath
What are the four humors or body fluids in humans?
- Blood
- Yellow bile
- Phlegm
- Black bile
True or False.
Illness occurs if one of four humors increases.
True
Who is the Greek physician that describes diabetes as the diarrhea of urine?
Galen
A Greek physician who first noticed the distinction between arterial blood (bright color blood) and venous blood (dark color blood).
Galen
The person who traced the beginning of MT back to 1550 BC (Taenia + Ascaris were mentioned in early writings).
Vivian Herrick
What is the book for treatment that has descriptions of three stages of hookworm infections?
Ebers Papyrus
The person who introduced medtech and believed urinalysis was a fad during the medieval period.
Ruth Williams
What is the oldest lab procedure?
Urinalysis
These doctors made the “SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION” that the urine of certain individuals attracts ants, and that such urine has a sweetish taste.
Early Hindu doctors
This young lady died from a laboratory-acquired infection.
Alessandra Giliani
First unlucky recipient of blood transfusion.
Pope Innocent VIII
First to perform direct blood transfusion (Animal to animal)
Richard Lower
Performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion. (Animal to human)
Jean-Baptiste Denys
First successful transfusion of blood (Human to human)
James Blundell
Who is the father of microbiology that invented the compound microscope and the first one to describe blood cells?
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK
The founder of pathology who discovered the capillaries.
MARCELLO MALPIGHI
Who developed the first visual colorimeter based on Beer’s Law?
JULES DUBOSCQ
Founded the archives of pathology in Berlin in 1847 and worked out the life cycle of roundworms.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW
Who is the father of modern surgery (founder of antiseptic medicine)?
Joseph Lister
Performed the first quantitative test for urine sugar.
HERMANN FEHLING
Who developed vaccines for chicken cholera and anthrax?
LOUIS PASTEUR
Discovered the medical use of X-rays in medical imaging.
WILHELM CONRAD RONTGEN
Who is the father of Blood Grouping and Immunochemistry?
KARL LANDSTEINER
The Father of American Pathology and the 1st professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University.
DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH
He wrote “A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis” and developed the standard reference for laboratories.
DR. JAMES C. TODD
The founder of the Medical Technology Education course in the Philippines.
Willa Hilgert Hedrick
University now known as the Adventist University of the Philippines that offered the first four-year B.S. degree in Medical Technology.
Philippine Union College
The 1st Medical Technology graduate who is now an OB-Gyne practitioner.
Dr. Jesse Umali
Location of the first laboratory in the Philippines
QUIRICADA ST., Sta. CRUZ, MANILA
