PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL LABORATORY

SCIENCE 1: HISTORY OF MEDICAL

TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES

16th CENTURY SPANISH OCCUPATION

- Spanish empire had occupied Luzon and

established Manila as their capital

HOSPITAL REAL

★the first hospital founded by the Spaniards in

Cebu in 1565 ; transferred to Manila for military

patients

➢Members of religious orders aiming to spread

Catholic faith

➢They established hospitals for the poor and

institutions of higher learning for the population of

mestizo and criollo elite.

EARLY HOSPITALS (SPANISH OCCUPATION)

★San Lazaro Hospital (1577) for the poor and

lepers

★Hospital de San Juan de Dios (1596) for poor

Spaniards

★Hospital de San Jose in Cavite (1641)

★Hospital de Naturales

★Hospital de la Misericordia

★Hospital de San Pedro Martir

★Hospital de San Gabriel

UNIVERSITY OF STO. TOMAS

★Founded by Dominicans in 1611

organized Philippines first faculties of medicine and

pharmacy in 1871

SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL JOURNALS

★Boletin de medicina de Manila (1886)

★Revista farmaceutica de Filipinas (1893)

★Cronicas de ciencias medicas (1895)

1876

★The medicos titulares or provincial medical

officers were first appointed

1886

★The board of Health and Charity was established

in 1883 and expanded

1806

★The central board of vaccination has been

producing and distributing lymph since

1898

★there were 122 regular vaccinators in Manila and

other major towns

LABORATORIO MUNICIPAL DE MANILA

★Established by Spanish colonial authorities in

1887, for lab exam of food, water and clinical

samples

★Rarely used, only for outbreaks

GEN. ANTONIO LUNA

★Was employed in 1894 as a chemical expert in

the said lab and pioneered environmental studies,

water testing and forensics

BY THE END OF SPANISH COLONIALISM

★modern structures were emerging

★Spanish authorities began applying the new

knowledge of microbial causes of disease

★American War in 1898, Spain ceded the

ownership of the Philippines to the US.

★The success of the 1896 Philippine revolution was

never recognized by Spain and the US and this

led to the Philippine-American war from

1899-1902 causing the Spanish health system to

break down completely.

AMERICAN OCCUPATION

★Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lippincott, chief surgeon

for the Division of the Pacific and eight Army

Corps converted the military hospital into the First

Reserve Hospital in August 1898 after the fall of

Manila

★The First Reserve Hospital faltered when Charles

R. MacVay III of the Medical Corps contracted

typhoid fever

★Richard P. Strong performed autopsies and made

cultures of blood, feces and urine

July 1901

★the Philippine Commission had established a

Bureau of Government laboratories through the

Philippine Commission Act No. 156

★It consist initially of biological and chemical

section, science library and serum lab for vaccine

production and was located along Calle Herran

(Pedro Gil St.)

★The bio lab was expected to provide facilities for

investigation of the causes, pathology and

methods of diagnosing and combating diseases

and perform routine biological works

★The chem lab investigated food, drug and plant

composition and mineral resources

PAUL C. FREER

★First director of the bureau

1904

★an equipped lab was built

★On the ground floor, a room was given over for

preparation of culture media and steam provided

for sterilizers and autoclaves

★The building was destroyed during world war II

and the location was now occupied by UP- Manila

National Institutes of Health

1905

★Bureau of Science was created

History of Medical Technology in the Philippine

BS Medical Laboratory Science (BS MLS)

Lyceum of the Philippines University

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