💀 Spooky Medical History
Doctors during the plague wore masks with this animal body part.
What is a beak?
Vampires are often said to avoid this
What is sunlight?
The organ that pumps blood.
What is the heart?
Mary Shelley wrote this famous novel about a scientist who builds a creature.
What is Frankenstein?
A doctor’s tool worn around the neck to listen to the heart.
What is a stethoscope?
For centuries, doctors cut patients to drain this red fluid, thinking it would cure their illness.
What is blood? (bloodletting)
A condition that causes extra hair growth may have inspired this monster.
What is a werewolf?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
Complete the classic title: “Dr. Jekyll and ___.”
Who is Mr. Hyde?
The oath doctors traditionally take is named after this Greek “Father of Medicine.”
Who is Hippocrates?
In the 1800s, resurrection men dug up fresh bodies and sold them to medical schools. Their nicknames were....
Who are grave robbers?
A blood disorder that makes skin sensitive to sunlight may have inspired this monster.
What is a vampire?
Adults have this many bones (within 5).
What is 206?
Cells from this woman, Henrietta ___, were taken in 1951 without her knowledge and are still used in labs today.
What is Lacks?
A person who pretends to be a doctor but isn’t is called this....
What is a quack?
Hundreds of years ago, doctors drilled holes in this body part to treat headaches.
What is the skull?
This animal-borne disease, which makes people aggressive, may have inspired werewolf and vampire stories.
What is rabies?
True or false: hair and nails keep growing after death.
False (the skin shrinks back)
This man survived an iron rod through his head in 1848, and his case taught doctors how the brain affects personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
During the plague, ships had to wait offshore for 40 days before docking. Today we call that waiting period by this name.
What is quarantine?
The Black Death, a plague that killed millions, happened in this century.
What is the 1300s (14th century)?
People with the rare Cotard’s delusion believe they’re already dead, which may have inspired this type of monster.
What is a zombie?
The smallest bones in the body are located in this part.
What is the ear?
Frankenstein’s story raises a modern ethics question about doing this to an organ or body part from one person to another.
What is transplanting?
Doing no harm, helping patients, respecting their choices, and being fair are the four principles of this field.
What are medical ethics?