HISTORY OF MEDTECH Flashcards
Memorize the people and their contribution, history of medtech in the US and the Philippines.
The father of medicine, author of the Hippocratic oath, tasted urine, listened to the lungs, identified kidney disease through urine containing, blood, pus or bubbles.
Hippocrates of Kos
The father of experimental physiology. Described diabetes as diarrhea of urine.
Claudius Galen of Pergammon
Describes hematuria, as inability of kidneys to filter blood properly.
Rufus of Ephesus
It is a branch of the allied health professions that deals with the study of various disciplines like clinical chemistry, hematology, blood banking, microbiology, etc.
Medical Technology
They perform and analyze the results of complex scientific tests on blood and body fluids.
Work in hospitals or independent labs.
Medical Technologist
They concluded a patient is diabetic by observing urine getting attracted by ants.
Greeks
They immunize themselves by inhaling powder from small pox scabs.
Chinese
They developed lab tools like forceps, scalpel, specula and surgical needle.
Romans
Indians practiced Toxicology which they called?
Agadatantra
Also known as water casting.
Visually examining a patient’s urine for pus, etc.
Submit in decorative flasks.
Uroscopy
It is stated here that physicians who failed to examine urine were subjected to public beating.
Jerusalem code of 1090
He developed the first microscope.
Opened the doors for scientists who wanted to explore the invisible world and know disease causation.
Zacharias Janssen
John Hutchinson developed the ? to know the vital capacity of the lungs.
Spirometer
He invented the sphygmomanometer to measure blood pressure.
Jules Herrison
Used to diagnose diabetes, anemia, diptheria and syphilis.
Chemistry
