PMLS: HISTORY OF MEDTECH PROFESSION

Hippocrates

Father of Medicine

Hippocrates

Adopted the triad of regimen in treating disease and infection

Drugs, Surgery, Blood Transfusion

the Triad of Regimen

Galen

greek physician and philosopher

Galen

measured the body fluids (four humors)

black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood

the four humors (body fluids)

antonie van leeuwenhoek

father of microbiology and microscopy

antonie van leeuwenhoek

first to discover rbc

900 AD

the first book (de urinis) detailing the characteristics of urine was written

de urinis

the first book

11th century

Medical practitioners were not allowed to conduct physical examination of the Patient’s Body.

18th century

Mechanical techniques and cadaver dissection were used to provide accurate diagnosis to understand the insides of the body

19TH CENTURY – 20TH CENTURY

Machines are used for diagnosis or therapeutics

JOHN HUTCHINSON

o Invented “Spirometer” for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs

Spirometer

measuring the vital capacity of the lungs