HISTORY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Flashcards
(35 cards)
450 BC
-Father of Medicine
-anatomical and chemical findings
-triad of regimen
-cause of diseases
Hippocrates
1550 BC
- parasitic infection and parasites as the etiological agent of skin diseases
Vivian Herrick & Anenzona (Arabian)
Medieval
- Piss
Professor Ruth Williams
vs Indian doctors
14th Century, died of lab infection
Alexander Gilliani
17th Century
- described RBC & differentiated bacteria by shapes
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
18th Century
- classical medical education
South Europe and North Africa
1821-1902
- Father of Microscopic Pathology
- manifestation of diseases at a cell level
Rudolf Virchow
Invented Microscope
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Triad of Regimen
Drugs, surgery, bloodletting
Late 19th Century
Emergence of clinical laboratories in US
1858
Part-time clinicians to teachers of new laboratory methods to medical practice
University of Cambridge
1870
-applied clinical lab. to medical diagnosis
William H. Welch & Michell Prudden
1871
Harvard’s “Learning by doing”
1878
-New laboratory at Bellevue Hospital Medical College
Dr. William Welch
1880
-use of microscope & blood-counting machine
Dr. William Osler
1885
-1st Professor of Pathology
Dr. William Welch
1887
- patients undergo routine lab
Dr. Douglas, Dr. Osler, Dr. Dock
1896
1st clinical laboratory of John Hopkins by Dr. William Osler
1900
Proof of clinical laboratories in 1896
1908
-“Clinical Diagnosis by Lab Methods”
Dr. Arthury Stanford
1911
- Lab science is now basis of diagnosis
1915
Law requiring complete lab facilities and fulltime medtechs for hospitals
1940
2 yr curriculum and 1 yr lab training
Bachelor of Science degree
World War II
Sickness flare up