TOPIC 1 Flashcards
(38 cards)
NAME THE FOUR BILES
In his Hippocratic Oath described four body fluids (humors) in man and felt that these were the source of a person’s disposition and disease in ancient times.
BLOOD, PHLEGM, YELLOW BILE, BLACK BILE
Who is the father of Medicine? What year?
Greek physician Hippocrates; 300 BC - 180 AD
FOUR BILE
Thought to cause anger and bad temper when present in excess
YELLOW BILE
FOUR BILE
Believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness melancholy
BLACK BILE
Who proposed the Pythagorean Theory?
GALEN
- Created a system of pathology that combined Hippocrates’ humoral theories
- Described that the 4 elements (earth, air, fire, water) corresponded to combinations of physiologic qualities (dry, cold, hot, moist)
PYTHAGOREAN THEORY (GALEN)
Hot + moist =
BLOOD
Hot + dry =
YELLOW BILE
Cold + moist =
PHLEGM
Cold + dry =
BLACK BILE
Regarded as a composite of these humors as recorded by a Hindu physician
URINE
Regarded as the oldest laboratory procedures today (as early as 600 BC)
URINALYSIS
Galen described diabetes as? And established the relationship between ______ and ________
DIARRHEA OF URINE; FLUID INTAKE AND URINE VOLUME
URINE
In Medieval Europe, ______ was practiced
UROSCOPY (WATER CASTING)
In what year does the 1st book detailing the characteristics of urine was written?
900 AD
In what year does Vivian Herrick traces the beginning of medical technology when intestinal parasites were mentioned in the early writings
1500 BC
VIVIAN HERRICK
What are those intestinal parasites were mentioned?
ASCARIS & TAENIA
What book believes that medical technology began when a book for the treatment of disease was published
EBERS PAPYRUS
This book contained the description of the 3 stages of hookworm infection and the disease it could produce to human
EBERS PAPYRUS
In what period and who is this medical technologist, believed that medical technology began from this period as supported by a fact that the urinalysis was a fad
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (1096-1438); RUTH WILLIAMS
Early Hindu doctors made the ______ that the urine of certain individuals attracted ants and that such urine have a
sweetish taste.
“scientific observation”
Quacks, calling themselves doctors reaped fortunes from diagnosing diseases by
appearance of the urine
When and who believed that medical technology started when a prominent Italian doctor at the University of Bologna employed Alessandra Giliani to perform different tasks in the laboratory. But died due to a laboratory acquired infection (LAI)
14th century - Anne Fagelson
Who invented the simple (1 lens)
microscope and the 1st to describe red blood cells (RBCs) to see protozoa and to classify bacteria according to shape The invention of the microscope led to the rapid progress of microbiology and pathology
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek