History of Medical Technology (Beginnings, USA, and PH)

Question 1

Father of medicine; triad of regimen (drug, blood-letting, surgery)

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

Discovery of parasitic infection (Ascardis lumbricoides and Taenia species

Answer 2

Vivian Herrick

Question 3

Ebers Papyrus

Answer 3

treatment of diseases (3 stages of hookworm infection)

Question 4

first functional crude microscope

Answer 4

Anton van Leuwenhoek

Question 5

Father of microscopic pathology; study of manifestation of diseases and infections

Answer 5

Rudolf Virchow

Question 6

Quantitative test of sugar

Answer 6

Hermann Fehling

Question 7

first professor in pathology in USA

Answer 7

Dr. William Welch

Question 8

First chemistry lab in USA

Answer 8

University of Michigan

Question 9

first school in USA to offer to train laboratory workers

Answer 9

University of Minnesota

Question 10

first laboratory in the Philippines

Answer 10

Laboratorio Municipal de Manila

Question 11

military group who introduced MedTech in the Philippines

Answer 11

26th Medical Infantry Division of the 6th US Army

Question 12

first clinical laboratory in the Philippines

Answer 12

Public Health Laboratory

Question 13

it is presently known and located in

Answer 13

Manila Public Health Laboratory (Quiricada St., Sta. Cruz, Manila)

Question 14

who organized the Public Health laboratory?

Answer 14

Dr. Alfredo Pio de Roda w/ assistance of Dr. Mariano Icasiano

Question 15

who started a training of medical technicians?

Answer 15

Dr. Prudencia Sta. Ana

Question 16

first school to offer medtech as a 4-year course

Answer 16

Philippine Union College
Manila Sanitarium

Question 17

first graduate of medtech

Answer 17

Dr. Jesse Umali (from PUC)

Question 18

who introduced Hematuria

Answer 18

Rufus Ephesus

Question 19

who wrote Kitab al Baul; urinary sediments and urine characterisitcs

Answer 19

Isaac Judeaus

Question 20

first simple microscope

Answer 20

Zacharias Jansenn

Question 21

who observed that the blood of patients were plagued with worms

Answer 21

Athanasius Kircher

Question 22

who observed protein in urine?

Answer 22

Frederick Dekker

Question 23

who made the transfusion of blood from animal to another possible?

Answer 23

Richard Lower

Question 24

who created an archive of pathology in Berlin

Answer 24

William Hewson

Question 25

when was the Bachelor of MedTech recognized as a profession in the Philippines?

Answer 25

June 14, 1961

Question 26

first clinical laboratory in USA

Answer 26

John Hopkins University

Question 27

father of modern pathology and histology; exploration of chick embryology, physiology, and histology

Answer 27

Marcelo Malphigi

Question 28

director of clinical laboratories

Answer 28

Pathologist