1500 BC
Oldest body fluid to be tested in 1500 BC
Urine
Hippocrates (300 BC - 180 AD)
Indication of Chronic illness and Kidney disease (hippocrates)
1140 AD
Aelius Galenus/Claudius Galenus
Zaccharias Janssen & Hans Janssen (1590)
Marcelo Malphigi
Jean Baptiste Van Helmont
Frederick Dekkers (1673)
The Era of Public Health
19th century
John Snow (1854)
Louis Pasteur
First Hospital Laboratory in Britain
Guy’s Hospital
Laboratory in United States
University of Michigan Hospital
Dr. William Welch (1878)
Dr. William Welch (1886)
William Osler (1898)
James C. Todd (1908)
1915
1923
Increase demand for clin lab and technicians
World War I
World War II
US bases in Leyte (1944)