HISTORY MEDTECH IN GLOBAL CONTEXT

Heinemann

Application of the principles of physical, natural and biological sciences

Fagelson

Concerned with the performance of laboratory determinations and analyses used in diagnosis and treatment of disease

Walters

The health profession concerned with performing laboratory analyses in view of obtaining information necessary in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

R.A. 5527

Auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine deals with the examination of tissue, secretion, and excretion of the human body and body fluids by various medical laboratory oricedures that will aid the physician in the diagnosis study, and treatment of diseases.

(Porter 1996)

Disease was viewed with mystery and was a common occurence that claimed many lives

Reiser and Anbar, 1984

The disease was caused by negative interaction between environmental elements and body fluids

Hippocrates

Father of Medicine

Formulated the Hippocratic Oath

The Four Humors

Blood, Phlegm, Y bile, B bile

appearance of bubbles, blood and puss is urine indicates a

kidney disease and chronic illness

Who is a person who described ‘diarrhea of urine’

Galen

Uroscopy was widely practiced in

medieval europe

on what year the first book detailing the characteristics of urine was written?

900 AD

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 a more objective and accurate diagnosis.

Physician’s touch was extremely helpful in providing more objective and accurate treatment for illness, which is why most general population during this period was reluctant to allow any doctors to physically examine them

19th century

Machines were used in diagnosis

Spiromenter

John Hutchinson

Sphygmomanometer

Jules Herissons

Breakthrough in medical technology (SOLX)

stethoscope

ophthalmoscope

laryngoscope

X-ray

Stethoscope (1816)

Rene Laennec, French

Microscope (1840)

Antonie can Leuwenhoek

Ophthalmoscope (1850)

Hermann von Helmholtz, German

Laryngoscope (1855)

Manuel Garcia

X-ray (1859)

Wilhelm Roentgen, discovered by accident a radiation could pentrate solid objects of low-density

Electrocardiograph (1903)

William Einthoven

Kenny Method (1901)

Devised by Elizabeth Kenny in the treatment of Polio

Drinker Respirator (1927)

Philip Drinker

Heart-Lung bypass (1939)

John Gibbon

Cardiac Catheterization and angiography

1941

University of Pennsylvania’s Wiliam Pepper’s Laboratory

What university was opened in Pennsylvania?

1918

John Kolmer published ‘The Demand for and Training of laboratory technicians’. Pennsylvania enacted the law requiring all hospitals and institutions to have a fully-equipped laboratory

1920

Large laboratories directed by physicians: 5 DIVISIONS

1922

American Society for Clinical Pathology was founded. Encouraging the cooperation between physicians and clinical pathologist

1950

Medical technologists in the US sought professionals’ recognition from the government of their educational qualifications through licensure laws.