PRELIM Flashcards
(47 cards)
An auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine
Medical technology
A person who engages in the work of medical laboratory
Medical technologist
Depende only on patientspalpation and auscultation
Ancient world
Available only to the upper class
Therapeutic procedures
Methodologies began to diagnose diseases
300 BC
Father of medicine
Writer a book called uroscopy
Hippocrates
The observe if urine attracted ants for diagnosis of diabetes
Greek
Practiced variolation
Chinese
Inhaling powder made from smallpox scabs to develop immunity
Variolation
The developed laboratory tools
Romans
They introduced agadantantra
Indians
Practice of toxicology / study of poisons
Agadantantra
First to describe hematuria
Rufus of Ephesus
Blood in urine
Hematuria
Invented the microscope (9x magnification)
Zaccharias-Janssen
Improved the microscope (90x-270x)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Used the microscope to investigate the cause of diseases
Athanasius kircher
First to discover cell
Robert hooke
Investigated the embryology of chicks
Marcello malphigi
Developed the gravimetric analysis of urine
Jean baptiste van Helmont
Describe the protein in urine
Frederick dekkers
Performed the first blood transfusion in animals
Richard lower
Describe the process of coagulation
William hewson
Developed the yeast test for sugar
Francis home