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
1885
-1st Professor of Pathology
Dr. William Welch
1887
- patients undergo routine lab
Dr. Douglas, Dr. Osler, Dr. Dock
1896
1st clinical laboratory of John Hopkins by Dr. William Osler
1900
Proof of clinical laboratories in 1896
1908
-“Clinical Diagnosis by Lab Methods”
Dr. Arthury Stanford
1911
- Lab science is now basis of diagnosis
1915
Law requiring complete lab facilities and fulltime medtechs for hospitals
1940
2 yr curriculum and 1 yr lab training
Bachelor of Science degree
World War II
Sickness flare up
1944
US base health care team aid
End of WWII
1st clinical lab in PH ( 26th ML of the 6th US Army)
February 1944
26th ML offer 1 yr training to high school graduates as lab tech
June 1945
26th ML US staff leave after introducing the clinic to National DOH
October 1, 1945
PHL(public health lab) by Dr. Pio de Rosa & Dr. Prudencio Sta. Ana
1947
Free medtech training by Dr. Rosa and Dr. Sta Ana
1954
1st 4-year BS Medtech course by PUCB(Philippine Union College of Baesa)
1957
Medtech elective to pharmacy graduates by Dr. Antonio Gabriel and Dr. Reyes
1960
Centro Escolar University=Purificacion-Sunico-Suaco
1961
Far Eastern University, 1st school for Med-tech, others follow
1967
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