PMLS HISTORY Flashcards
clinical laboratory science or the science of laboratory medicine.
Medical Technology
involves the application of diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic medicine to monitor and improve the management of health conditions.
Medical Technology
concerned with the performance of laboratory determinations and analyses used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.
Medical Technology
concerned with performing laboratory analyses in view of obtaining information necessary in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases as well as in the maintenance of good health.
Medical Technology
application of the principles of natural, physical and biological sciences in laboratory procedures to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Medical Technology
Philippine Medical Technology of 1969
RA 5527
When was the Philippine Medical Technology act of 1969 approved?
June 21, 1969
aid the physician in the diagnosis, study and treatment of disease and in the promotion of health in general.
Medical Technology
Oldest preserved Egyptian compilation of medical texts
Ebers Papyrus
Contains chapters on contraception, pregnancy, eye and skin problems, surgery, burns and intestinal diseases and parasites
Ebers Papyrus
describes the treatment of hookworm disease and infection transmissible to human
Ebers Papyrus
first medical technologist
Vivian Herrick
medical technologist who traced the beginning of medical technology when intestinal parasite such as Taenia and Ascaris were first identified
Vivian Herrick
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Advocated the use of mind and senses as
diagnostic tools
Hippocrates
He described four humors or body fluids in the
human body
Hippocrates
oldest lab procedure
Urinalysis
poured urine on ground when it attracts insects = patient diagnosed with boils - large pimples
Greeks
What are the four humors?
A. blood
B. phlegm
C. yellow bile
D. black bile
based upon the observation of Blood as drawn in a glass container and left undisturbed for about an hour.
four humours
dark clot at the bottom
Black bile
Above the clot is a layer of RBC
Blood
Above is a whitish layer of WBC = now called the buffy coat)
Phlegm