UNIT 1 Flashcards
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
Four Humors
Blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm
Code of ethics for physicians
Hippocratic oath
Oldest form of testing urine
Uroscopy
Source of person’s disposition and disease in the ancient times based on the four humors
Humoral pathology
Marker for diagnosis
Urine
Modern form of testing urine
Urinalysis
Physical examination of urine
Color, clarity, odor
Used in chemical examination of urine
Reagent strip/urine dipstick
Microscopic analysis
Formed elements
Excessive production of urine
Polyuria
Concluded diabetes if urine has sweet taste
Hindu physician/s
Concluded diabetes if ants are attracted to urine
Greeks
Immunization to smallpox
Chinese
Scalpels, forceps, specula, and surgical needles
Romans
Toxicology, distillation, pharmacy analysis, and separation of minerals
India
Wrote a book on characteristics of urine
Rufus of Ephesus
First described hematuria by correlating blood to the physiological function of the kidney
Rufus of Ephesus
Healthiest man according to Herodotus
Early Egyptians
Presence of blood in urine
Hematuria
Objective evidence that the physician perceives
Signs
Subjective evidence that the patient perceives
Symptoms
Protection against infectious agents
Immunity
Two types of immunity
Innate/natural
Adaptive/acquired
Naturally occuring and non-specific immune response
Innate/natural immunity
Specific immune response
Adaptive/acquired immunity
Two types of WBC
Granulocytes/agranulocytes
Contain granules or sac
Granulocytes