PRELIM-HISTORY OF URINALYSIS Flashcards
what is the beginning of laboratory medicine?
analyzing urine
references of the study of urine, it was been found before in
in the drawings of cavemen and in Egyptian hieroglyphics
one of the examples of Egyptian hieroglyphics is the
Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
physicians before weren’t able to see the patients, but only their urine. Also, despite lacking sophisticated equipment which the modern time have, they were able to obtain diagnosing info from it,
what are the diagnostic information they can obtain by analyzing the patient’s urine?
color, turbidity, odor, volume, viscosity, and even
sweetness (by noting that certain specimens attracted ants
or tasted sweet)
On 5th century BCE, he wrote a book ‘uroscopy’
hippocrates
in year ____ CE, color charts had been developed that described the significance of 20 different colors
1140 CE
Chemical testing progressed
from “ant testing” and “taste testing” for glucose to Frederik
Dekkers’ discovery in 1694 of ____ by boiling urine
albuminuria
who discovered albuminuria and when was it?
Frederik
Dekkers’ discovery in 1694
The credibility of urinalysis became compromised when
____ without medical credentials began offering their pre
dictions to the public for a healthy fee
charlatans
charlatans or chismosa is also called as
pisse prophets
pisse prophets became the subject in a book to prove that they are wrong,
the book is published by
Thomas Bryant in 1627.
when was the microscope invested
17th century
who developed quantitating microscopic sediments?
thomas addis
who introduced the concept of urinalysis as part of a doctor’s routine patient examination?
richard bright 1827
year when urinalysis dispappear from the routine examination
1930
