PRELIM HISTORY Flashcards
Physician and surgeon in the 2nd century.
○ “The body has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile, and we enjoy the most of our health when these elements are in the right position”.
Galen
Father of Medicine, formulated the Hippocratic Oath; the code of ethics for practicing physicians
Hippocrates
traces the beginning of medical technology when parasites such as Taenia and Ascaris were identified.
1500 B.C. – Vivian Herrick,
book contained the description of the three stages of hookworm infection, and treatment of disease
Ebers Papyrus;
author of the book.
George Ebers
Polyuria or diabetes was also noted in ancient times as early as?
600 BC
had the scientific observation that the urine of certain individuals attracted ants and had a sweet taste.
Early Hindu Doctors
believed that medical technology began from the MEDIEVAL PERIOD as supported by the fact that URINALYSIS WAS A FAD (popular practice)
1096-1438 – Ruth Williams
believed that MT started when a prominent doctor at the University of Bologna employed ALESSANDRA GILIANI (who died due to lab acquired infection)
14th century – Anne Fagelson
Founder of Pathology (microanatomy), was described as the greatest of the early microscopists.
1628-1694 – Malphigi
- 1847 – However, some believed that pathology was practiced in the time of ____________________, one of the youngest of the medical specialist
- FOUNDER OF ARCHIVES OF PATHOLOGY IN BERLIN
Rudolph Virchow
first quantitative test for urine sugar 1
1848 – Hermann Fehling
The new science became known in
GERMANY, and spread in __________
GREECE
JAPAN
TURKEY
ENGLAND
UNITED STATES
The ________ was the EMERGENCE OF CLINICAL LABORATORIES
19th Century
1878 - ____ established a laboratory at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
WILLIAM H. WELCH
1885 - WILLIAM H. WELCH became the First professor of Pathology at?
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
(1896) opened the very first clinical laboratory at the John Hopkins Hospital. It was a 12-by-12 foot room, equipped at $50. Routine examinations were carried out, special attention being given to the search for malarial parasites.
Dr. William Osler
