HISTORY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Flashcards
450 BC
-Father of Medicine
-anatomical and chemical findings
-triad of regimen
-cause of diseases
Hippocrates
1550 BC
- parasitic infection and parasites as the etiological agent of skin diseases
Vivian Herrick & Anenzona (Arabian)
Medieval
- Piss
Professor Ruth Williams
vs Indian doctors
14th Century, died of lab infection
Alexander Gilliani
17th Century
- described RBC & differentiated bacteria by shapes
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
18th Century
- classical medical education
South Europe and North Africa
1821-1902
- Father of Microscopic Pathology
- manifestation of diseases at a cell level
Rudolf Virchow
Invented Microscope
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Triad of Regimen
Drugs, surgery, bloodletting
Late 19th Century
Emergence of clinical laboratories in US
1858
Part-time clinicians to teachers of new laboratory methods to medical practice
University of Cambridge
1870
-applied clinical lab. to medical diagnosis
William H. Welch & Michell Prudden
1871
Harvard’s “Learning by doing”
1878
-New laboratory at Bellevue Hospital Medical College
Dr. William Welch
1880
-use of microscope & blood-counting machine
Dr. William Osler