PMLS

• father of medicine


  Hippocrates
• 4 humor

  • blood
  • phlegm
  • black bile
  • yellow bile
• stated that "diseases are not caused by superstition and mystical forces"

  Hippocrates
• in this age, herbal medicines were widely used

  Middle Ages
• observing the physical characteristics to diagnose a disease (appearance of bubbles)

  uroscopy
• father of Medieval Jewish Neoplatonism

  Isaac Judaeus
• he devised guidelines for the use of urine as diagnostic aid

  Isaac Judaeus
• failure to examine urine would expose physician to public beatings

  Jerusalem Code of 1090 (Isaac Judaeus)
• Jean Baptiste van Helmont

  Father of Pneumatic Chemistry
• Frederik Dekkers


  Discovered that urine contained protein would form precipitate when boiled with acetic acid
• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek 


  father of microbiology
• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek


  invented the first functional crude microscope
• Richard Lower


  first to perform direct transfusion of blood from one animal to another (dogs)
• direct transfusion from a lamb into clergyman _

  Arthur Coga
• father of hematology

  William Hewson
• he discovered the cause of coagulation

  William Hewson
• John Snow


  great cholera outbreak
• Louis Pasteur 


  successfully produced immunity to rabies
• Robert Koch


  presented first pictures of bacilli (anthrax) – later tubercle bacilli
• founder of Modern Bacteriology

  Robert Koch
• MRI

  Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• LASER

  Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• he discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox

  Edward Jenner
• identified organs by their types of tissues

  Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
• Agostino Bassi


  produced disease in worms by injection of organic material
• Gregor Mendel


  enunciated his law of inheritance characteristics from studies on plants
• development of ABO blood group system

  Karl Landsteiner
• described phagocytes in blood and its role in fighting infection

  Elie Metchnikoff
• Hans Fischer


  worked out the structure of hemoglobin
• James Thomson


  derived first human Stem Cell line
• William H. Welch


  1st professor of Pathology in John Hopkins University
• Dr. William Osler


  introduced and use the microscope and a blood counting machine
• published the Demand for Training of Laboratory Technicians

  John Kolmer
• called the development that would certify Medical Technologist on a national scale

  John Kolmer
• American Society for Clinical Pathology

  ASCP
• ASCP


  founded & established the Code of Ethics for Technicians.
• formed under subgroup of ASCP and certification of their educational qualification through licensure laws

  ASMT
• ASMT

  American Society for Medical Technologists
• first hospital in the Philippines built by Spaniards; moved to Manila (for military patients)

  Hospital Real de Cebu
• built by religious Franciscans (for poor and lepers)

  San Lazaro Hospital