In a doctor's office, hospital, or clinic, patients rarely review medical equipment around them. Medical equipment is an integral part of diagnosis, monitoring and therapy. Even the simplest physical examination can often require a variety of high-tech medical equipment.
In Europe, the 15th century, during and after the horrors of the bubonic plague, an autopsy began to be held at universities, and the primitive form of the scientific method began to linger in the minds of the educated. Began practical operations and anatomy studies. These curious medieval Europeans laid the foundation of modern science. They also laid the foundation for a well-known process of identifying a problem, creating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis with the most important observations and experiments; interpreting the data and making a conclusion.
Before and even during the scientific revolution, medical equipment was based on classical Greek and Roman theories about science, which was not based on science in general, but on philosophy and superstition. Human health was considered as a balance of 4 internal moods. in organism. 4 humors - blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm were similar to the 4 elements of the universe to the classical thinker, fire, air, water and earth. Diseases, both physical and mental, were caused by an imbalance of humor. The ideal mind and body balanced all 4 hormones, gracefully. To treat, doctors prescribed products or procedures that would balance the fluids in the body. Some of the recipes seem to make sense — a fever was treated with a cold, dry temperature to combat the hot, wet over stimulation in the body. But when it failed, often the next step was blood donation. Unnecessary cleansing and enemas were also common medicines that could help some people, but also cause more problems than they solved. The death of George Washington was recently attributed not to the streptococcus neck, which he probably had when he died, but to the bloodletting and mercurial enema that he was given to cure her. Until now, non-traditional medical medicines are still available and used by many, even today.
From the 15th century, Western science focused on studying and observing the body and created the tools to make it easier. X-rays today and MRI devices are simply extensions of the first autopsies and anatomical studies that sought to understand how the human body works. Diagnostic tools such as ophthalmoscopes, blood pressure monitors and stethoscopes are also a continuation of medieval research. Exam tables, gloves and other medical supplies are just the latest versions of tools that have been used for centuries. Medical technology and medical knowledge feed on each other. Take, for example, hypertension. Although devices for measuring blood pressure have existed for more than 100 years, only in the last 20 years have the connections of blood pressure with disease, genetics and lifestyle been fully studied. As the importance of measuring blood pressure increases, new technologies have been studied to provide accurate indicators and indicators. Only when an indicator of automatic blood pressure control controlled that a correlation could be made between the readings made by the person and the readings made in a controlled, isolated environment. Medical equipment and medical knowledge then form a consistently twisting Gordian knot, tightening on one side, and loosening on the other side back and forth.
What does the future hold for this pursuit of technology and research? Recent developments in nanotechnology and genetics, along with more powerful supercomputers, can create a situation where technology means something that means human change. For example, scientists have actually created simple life forms from previously non-living DNA material. Although at first glance this does not seem dramatic, it is an important event. Medical equipment acts as an extension to explore how and why the human body, and since science catches and surpasses research, completely new types of medical diagnostics, monitoring, and therapy may arise. Imagine the ability to grow new organs inside the body. In other organizations re-growth of the limb is possible, why not in people? And if it is possible, will the events really be "human"? The future is unknowable; the only aspect we can understand is that it will not look the way we could have imagined. Looking back, we will see the signs, as always, but this is an afterthought, not a prediction. Currently, technology is moving forward, and it continues, as a process, the change of human life.
