History of Medical Technology

Question 1

At what age do diseases are treated as works of evil spirits?

Answer 1

Stone age

Question 2

At what age do priests are treated as healers and exorcists?

Answer 2

Bronze age

Question 3

At what age do diseases were seen as punishments from the gods?

Answer 3

Bronze age

Question 4

Nature was the most powerful medicine during this age.

Answer 4

Iron age

Question 5

Who is the father of medicine?

Answer 5

Hippocrates

Question 6

What is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the western world?

Answer 6

Hippocratic oath

Question 7

What are the four humors or body fluids in humans?

Answer 7

1. Blood
2. Yellow bile
3. Phlegm
4. Black bile

Question 8

True or False.

Illness occurs if one of four humors increases.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Who is the Greek physician that describes diabetes as the diarrhea of urine?

Answer 9

Galen

Question 10

A Greek physician who first noticed the distinction between arterial blood (bright color blood) and venous blood (dark color blood).

Answer 10

Galen

Question 11

The person who traced the beginning of MT back to 1550 BC (Taenia + Ascaris were mentioned in early writings).

Answer 11

Vivian Herrick

Question 12

What is the book for treatment that has descriptions of three stages of hookworm infections?

Answer 12

Ebers Papyrus

Question 13

The person who introduced medtech and believed urinalysis was a fad during the medieval period.

Answer 13

Ruth Williams

Question 14

What is the oldest lab procedure?

Answer 14

Urinalysis

Question 15

These doctors made the “SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION” that the urine of certain individuals attracts ants, and that such urine has a sweetish taste.

Answer 15

Early Hindu doctors

Question 16

This young lady died from a laboratory-acquired infection.

Answer 16

Alessandra Giliani

Question 17

First unlucky recipient of blood transfusion.

Answer 17

Pope Innocent VIII

Question 18

First to perform direct blood transfusion (Animal to animal)

Answer 18

Richard Lower

Question 19

Performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion. (Animal to human)

Answer 19

Jean-Baptiste Denys

Question 20

First successful transfusion of blood (Human to human)

Answer 20

James Blundell

Question 21

Who is the father of microbiology that invented the compound microscope and the first one to describe blood cells?

Answer 21

ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Question 22

The founder of pathology who discovered the capillaries.

Answer 22

MARCELLO MALPIGHI

Question 23

Who developed the first visual colorimeter based on Beer’s Law?

Answer 23

JULES DUBOSCQ

Question 24

Founded the archives of pathology in Berlin in 1847 and worked out the life cycle of roundworms.

Answer 24

RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Question 25

Who is the father of modern surgery (founder of antiseptic medicine)?

Answer 25

Joseph Lister

Question 26

Performed the first quantitative test for urine sugar.

Answer 26

HERMANN FEHLING

Question 27

Who developed vaccines for chicken cholera and anthrax?

Answer 27

LOUIS PASTEUR

Question 28

Discovered the medical use of X-rays in medical imaging.

Answer 28

WILHELM CONRAD RONTGEN

Question 29

Who is the father of Blood Grouping and Immunochemistry?

Answer 29

KARL LANDSTEINER

Question 30

The Father of American Pathology and the 1st professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University.

Answer 30

DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH

Question 31

He wrote “A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis” and developed the standard reference for laboratories.

Answer 31

DR. JAMES C. TODD

Question 32

The founder of the Medical Technology Education course in the Philippines.

Answer 32

Willa Hilgert Hedrick

Question 33

University now known as the Adventist University of the Philippines that offered the first four-year B.S. degree in Medical Technology.

Answer 33

Philippine Union College

Question 34

The 1st Medical Technology graduate who is now an OB-Gyne practitioner.

Answer 34

Dr. Jesse Umali

Question 35

Location of the first laboratory in the Philippines

Answer 35

QUIRICADA ST., Sta. CRUZ, MANILA