HISTORY OF MEDICAL

TECHNOLOGY
 Evolution of Medical Technology
Hippocrates (460-377 B.C) and Galen (131-201 A.D) were first
physicians to document their patients process of healing to
improve patient care.
This completely changed how we viewed diseases. They were
no longer some mysterious force that took so many lives. One
could learn from how patients heal to improve treatment of
the next patients. In other words, medical practice in ancient
time was about gathering information and processing
information.
Hippocrates Galen
 However, the use of technology in medical practice did not start until the
19th century.

For a long time, the practice of medicine was based on patients

descriptions of symptoms not based on hands-on experience such as
examination of a patients body.

Not until the 18th century did physicians start to use manual techniques
to diagnose patients and to study dead bodies.
 THE FIRST LABORATORIES
University of Michigan
Chemical laboratory related to medicine (1844)
Dr. Douglas
not hospital connected
Dr. Vaughan worked as lab. assistant in 1874
examined urine, blood and stomach contents
 THE FIRST LABORATORIES
Dr. William H. Welch
studied pathology and bacteriology
Germany
Started the first laboratory course in Bellevue Hospital Medical
College
Became the first professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins
University in 1885
2 storey building
Bacteriology lab.
Amphitheater for autopsy
Pathology laboratory
 THE FIRST LABORATORIES
First clinical Laboratory
1896
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Small room (12 x 12)
Johns Hopkins Hospital
 THE FIRST LABORATORIES
Manual of Clinical Diagnosis
1908
James C. Todd
Kitchen table
Few shelves
6th edition by Dr. Todd and Dr. Arthur Sanford (1927):
Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods
 THE FIRST LABORATORIES
Manual of Clinical Diagnosis
Standard reference for laboratories

Editorship of Davidsohn and Henry

John, Bernard and Henry

 PROGRESS AFTER WORLD WAR I
Important factor in the growth of the clinical laboratory
Great demand for technicians
Demand for laboratory determinations
University of Minnesota was the first to offer a degree level
program
 INFLUENCE OF WW II
Use of blood increased
Closed system of blood collection was widely
adopted
Rh determination added to transfusion process
Rapid advance in instrumentation
Instruments that measure intensity of color
production
 INFLUENCE OF WW II
First automated equipment
Quality control programs became common
Lab medicine moved to an era of
sophistication
Pathology, clinical microscopy, studies of
blood cells, physiological chemistry and
bacteriology
 BIRTH OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
End of WW II
26th Medical Laboratory of the U. S. 6th Army was set up in
Manila
Quiricada St, Sta. Cruz Manila
Manila Public Health Laboratory
Training of Filipino High School Graduates as laboratory
technicians
Shipped back to U. S. in 1945
 BIRTH OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
Dr. Alfredo Pio de Roda (bacteriologist)
Dr. Mariano C. Icasiano (Manila City Health Officer)
Medical Lab. Under City Health department
Public Health Laboratory (October 1, 1945)
Dr. Prudencio C. Sta. Ana
Dr. Tirso Briones
Syllabus for training high school and paramedical graduates to
become med. technologists
 BIRTH OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
1954
PUC
National Adventist University of the Philippines
Manila Sanitarium and Hospital
4 year course leading to B. S. Medical Technology
Jesse Umali
UST, CEU, FEU followed
 BIRTH OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
1957
Dr. Antonio Gabriel
Dr. Gustavo Reyes
Elective course to Pharmacy graduates
June 30, 1960 (first 3 yr course)
aJune 12, 1961 (4th yr. internship program)
 BIRTH OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
1960
CEU
First graduates in 1962
BIRTH OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
1961
FEU