Point-of-care testing
From uroscopy to large-scale automated lab
The history of laboratory medicine
3min
Published on January 1, 2021
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile – 2,400 years ago, Hippocrates of Kos, arguably the best-known physician in history, suspected that bodily fluids influenced our health. With his doctrine of the “humors,” he and his followers paved the way for the systematic study of bodily fluids.
Automatic, large and small
Der Film „Das automatische Krankenhauslabor“ von 1968 zeigt die Arbeitsabläufe in einem für die damalige Zeit hochmodernen Labor.
Some of the components of the SILAB system in 1971
Laboratory diagnostics today and tomorrow
Modernes vollautomatisiertes Großlabor (2013)