Lesson 1 - History Of Medical Technology Flashcards
He is the father of medicine
Hippocrates
Author of Hippocratic Oath, a Greek physician and philosopher. He describes diabetes as diarrhea of urine.
Galen
What are the four humors
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, and Black Bile
Greeks believed that these should remain balanced for people to remain healthy.
Four humors
Blood symbolizes?
Spring
Phlegm symbolizes?
Winter
Yellow bile symbolizes?
Summer
Black bile symbolizes?
Autumn
Blood relates to what personality trait?
It is related to happiness, optimism, sanguine.
Phlegm related to what personality trait?
Calmness and intellectuality
Yellow bile relates to what personality trait?
Childhood, anger, choleric
Black bile relates to what personality trait?
Pensive sadness, old age, melancholic, and “imagined receptacle” of the spleen
It is the diagnostic examination of the urine
Water casting or uroscopy
What does patients uses to keep their urine for examination?
Flasks
When did the first book about the characteristics of the urine was written?
900 AD
When did medical practitioners were not allowed to conduct an examination to the patient’s body, thus, they need to rely solely on the patient’s description of symptoms?
11th century
When did mechanical techniques and cadaver dissection were used to provide accurate diagnosis of sickness and to know the insides of the body.
18th century
What are the tools that were invented and used on 19th century?
Spirometer and Sphygmomanometer
Who invented the spirometer?
John Hutchinson
Who invented the sphygmomanometer?
Jules Herrison
it measures the vital capacity of lungs.
Spirometer
it measures blood pressure
Sphygmomanometer
It was pivotal in the diagnosis of diabetes, anemia, diphtheria, and syphillis
Chemistry
When did the stethoscope was invented?
1816