Lesson 1: History of Medical Technology Profession

Question 1

Father of Medicine

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

Greek physician and philosopher
 Described diabetes as “diarrhea of urine”
 Established the relationship between fluid
intake and urine volume

Both instigated a rudimentary and qualitative
assessment of disorder through measurement of body
fluids in relation to season

Answer 2

Galen

Question 3

Four humors of man (body fluids):

Answer 3

Blood
 Phlegm
 Yellow bile
 Black bile

Question 4

First book detailing the characteristics of urine (e.g.,
color, density, quality) was written

Answer 4

900 AD

Question 5

Medical practitioners were not allowed to conduct
physical examinations

They rely solely on the patient’s description of
symptoms and their observations

Answer 5

11th century

Question 6

Mechanical techniques and cadaver dissection were
used to provide more objective and accurate diagnosis
and to understand the insides of the body

Answer 6

18th century

Question 7

Physicians began using machines for diagnosis or
therapeutics

Answer 7

19th century

Question 8

invented spirometer for measuring
the vital capacity of lungs

Answer 8

John Hutchinson

Question 9

invented sphygmomanometer for
measuring blood pressure

Answer 9

Jules Herisson

Question 10

Technical laboratories regulated by center for disease
control and prevention (CDC) began to be used for
medical diagnostics in the US

Answer 10

Mid-1900s

Question 11

80%of medical professionals were non-physicians

Answer 11

1969

Question 12

Improvements in basic sciences and integration of
scientific and technological discoveries marked the
advances of medical technology

Answer 12

20th century

Question 13

gave way to the visualization of
small cells including tumor cells

Answer 13

Electron microscope—

Question 14

The adaption of computers in medical researches led to the development of?

Answer 14

tomography and magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI).

Question 15

—first diagnostic medical breakthrough
invented by Rene Laennec
 used to acquire information about the lungs and heartbeats

Answer 15

1816 stethoscope

Question 16

—developed for medical purposes due to
advances in lenses and lower costs
the first practical microscope was devised by who?

Answer 16

1840—microscope, Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek

Question 17

—first visual technology invented by

Answer 17

1850—Hermann von Helmholz

Question 18

devised by a using two mirrors
to observe the throat and larynx

Answer 18

1855—laryngoscope—devised by manuelgarcia

Question 19

• allowed physicians to view the inside of the body without
  surgery
• used to diagnose pneumonia, pleurisy and tuberculosis since
  world war II

Answer 19

1859—x-ray— Wilhelm Roentgen

Question 20

used to measure electrical changes during the beating of the heart

Answer 20

1903 - electrocardiograph - William Eintohoven

Question 21

served as the pioneering work for modern
physical therapy

Answer 21

1910 - Kenny Method - Elizabeth Kenny

Question 22

Kenny method is also used in treatment of ____ using hot packs and muscle manipulation.

Answer 22

Treatment of polio

Question 23

Prompted the invention of a new stretcher called?

Answer 23

Sylvia Stretcher in 1927

Question 24

to help
patients with paralytic anterior poliomyelitis recover normal
respiration with the assistance of artificial respirator

Answer 24

1927 - drinker respirator - philip drinker

Question 25

first visual technology developed by?

Answer 25

1939 - Herman Von Helmholz

Question 26

first operated by Forsmann in 1929

Answer 26

1941 - Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography.

Question 27

Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography was developed by ?

Answer 27

Moniz, reboul, rousthoi betweeen 1930 and 1940