LESSON 1 (History of Medical Technology) Flashcards
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
Instigated the four humors
Galen
The four humors
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
Galen described diabetes as:
“diarrhea of urine”
Also called “water casting”
Uroscopy
Origin of the word Uroscopy
“ouron” (urine) + “skopea” (examine/inspect)
Wrote the 1st manuscript focused on urine– “De Urinis”
Theophilus Protospatharius
Head of laboratories (specialized doctors)
Pathologist
CDC
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
ASCP
American Society for Clinical Pathology
ASCLS
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
Year of the start of licensure exams
1950
First hospital in the Philippines
Hospital Real
First Clinical Laboratory in the Philippines
Manila Public Health Laboratory
Who reopened the MPHL and when
Dr. Pio de Roda and Dr. Mariano Icasiano (October 1945)
Franciscans built this hospital for the poor and lepers
San Lazaro Hospital (1578)
This hospital was founded for the poor Spaniards
San Juan de Dios (1596)
Opened the first medtech school in the Philippines
Manila Sanitarium and Hospital (1954)
Father of Microbiology
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
One of the body fluids that underwent examination
Urine
This is pivotal in diagnosis of diabetes, anemia, diphtheria and syphilis in the 19th century
Chemistry
First medical breakthrough + inventor + year invented
Stethoscope + Rene Läennec (1816)
Who invented the microscope (year)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1840)
Who invented the ophthalmoscope (year)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1850)
Who invented the laryngoscope (year)
Manuel Garcia (1855)
Who invented the x-ray (year)
Wilhelm Roentgen (1859)
Who invented electrocardiogram (year)
William Einthoven (1903)
Who invented the Kenny Method (year)
Elizabeth Kenny (1910)
Drinker Respirator (year)
Philip Drinker (1927)
Heart-lung machine
John Gibbon (1939)
Who published the “The Demand for and Training of Laboratory Technicians” (year)
John Kolmer (1918)
Established under the Philippine Commission Act No. 156 (year)
Bureau of Government Laboratories (1901)
First graduate of medical technology program
Dr. Jesse Umali