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Inventions and Innovations in the Field of Medical Laboratory

measures the vital capacity of the lungs.

SPIROMETER

He invented the Spirometer.

JOHN HUTCHINSON’S

measures blood pressure

SPHYGMOMANOMETER

Who invented the Sphygmomanometer?

JULES HERISSON’S

First diagnostic medical breakthrough

STETHOSCOPE

Who invented the Stethoscope?

RENE LAENNEC

First practical microscope was devised by?

ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

devised by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

MICROSCOPE

First visual technology invented by Hermann von Helmholtz.

OPTHALMOSCOPE

Devised by Manuel Garcia

LARYNGOSCOPE

He invented the Laryngoscope.

MANUEL GARCIA

Invented by Wilhelm Roentgen.

XRAY

He invented the X-ray.

WILHELM ROENTGEN

Developed by William Einthoven

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH

He invented the Electrocardiograph.

WILLIAM EINTHOVEN

Devised by Elizabeth Kenny in the treatment of polio.

KENNY METHOD

Who devised the Kenny Method?

ELIZABETH KENNY

Invented by Philip Drinker

DRINKER RESPIRATOR

Who invented the Drinker Respirator?

PHILIP DRINKER

Invented by John Gibbon

HEART-LUNG MACHINE

Who invented the Heart-Lung Machine?

JOHN GIBBON

Cardiac catheterization and Angiography

1941

Who published “The Demand for and Training of Laboratory Technicians”?

JOHN KOLMER

The Bureau’s first director

PAUL FREER

First Graduate of BSMT (Philippine Union College)

DR. JESSE UMALI

Together with Dr. Pio de Roda, conducted a training program for aspiring laboratory workers. She prepared a six-month formal syllabus for the training program with certificate for the trainees upon completion.

DR. PRUDENCIA STA. ANA

Father of microbiology

ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to smallpox.

EDWARD JENNER

identified organs by their types of tissue.

MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER BICHAT

Produced disease in worms by injection of organic material – beginning of bacteriology.

AGOSTINO BASSI

Successfully produced immunity to rabies

LOUIS PASTEUR

Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants.

GREGOR MENDEL

Demonstrated that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms.

JOSEPH LISTER

Presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli.

ROBERT KOCH

Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection.

ELLIE METCHNIKOFF

Introduced steam sterilization in surgery.

ERNST VON BERGMANN

Distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system

KARL LANDSTEINER

Developed immunologic tests for syphilis.

AUGUST VON WASSERMANN

Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsia.

HOWARD RICKETTS

Worked out the structure of hemoglobin.

HANS FISCHER

Developed poliomyelitis vaccine.

JONAS SALK

Introduced the Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory.

JAMES WESTGARD

Introduced the Hepatitis B vaccine.

BARUCH SAMUEL BLUMBERG

Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

KARY MULLIS

Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF

ANDRE VAN STEIRTEGHEM

Derived the first human stem cell line.

JAMES THOMSON