Abstract
The first article in this series followed the historical timeline of pathology and laboratory medicine from ancient times, with the earliest development of laboratory tests through the centuries, to the beginnings of various laboratories as recognized today. Various early developments of “laboratories” (pharmaceutical, physical, chemical, biological, forensic, microbiological) for early scientists were for experimental study and scientific research purposes. None in the beginning were specifically medically oriented for testing/analysis for direct diagnosis for patient care. Clinical laboratories would eventually evolve into existence but not originally be affiliated with hospitals. Using clinical laboratories distinctly for medical testing to aid in the detection, diagnose, and treatment of disease would be forthcoming as an offspring of these research laboratories. It would take some time for pathology and laboratory medicine to become recognized as a specialty established in hospitals. Historians generally demonstrate that laboratories were first created as independent rooms separate from hospitals to eventually be part of university hospitals.
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