History of MedTech Flashcards
father of medicine
Hippocrates
greek physician and philosopher
Galen
means to describe what you see in the patient
qualitative assessment
the patient submitted their urine in a decorative flask
uroscopy
medical practitioners were not allowed to conduct examination of the patient
11th century
medical techniques and dissection of cadaver
18th century
began using machines for diagnosis
19th century
invented the spirometer
John Hutchinson
use for measuring the vital capacity of lungs
spirometer
invented the sphygmomanometer
Jules Herisson
invented the stethoscope
Rene Laennec
the year invented the microscope andn who invented
1840 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
who invented the opthalmoscope
Hermann von Helmholz
year invented the laryngoscope and who invented this
1855 - Manuel Garcia
who invented the x-ray
Wilhelm Roentgen
In 1903 William Einthoven invented this machine to measure the electrical changes during the heartbeat
electrocaridiograph
when the Kenny method was invented and who invented this machine
1910 - Elizabeth Kenny
visualize the cells
electron microscope