Famous Firsts
This life-saving drug was first given in 1922. Additionally, Dr. Winsted will drop kick you in the chest if you don't know this.
What is:
Insulin
This famous father had "inflammatory Quinsy", or a throat infection. It was not what he had that killed him, but rather, what his three doctors took out!
Who is:
George Washington (blood letting)
Fire up your backwoods stills. In prohibition times, this type of alcohol was mixed in to stretch the yields. In skilled hands, it could be purified and made drinkable, but in your Uncle Jimmy's hands, well, let's say it led to the coinage of the term "Moonshine Blindness"
What is:
Wood alcohol(methanol)
Use the greek to derive the medical term:
kokkux
It's my last link to my more wild relatives
What is
Coccyx
Robert Koch discovered this bacterium causing cholera on a research trip to Calcutta in 1883. He described its shape as a "little bent, like a comma". It was actually described by Italian, Fillipo Pacini, 30 years earlier.
What is:
Vibrio cholerae
The first heart transplant was performed in 1967 in this "separated" country.
Fun fact: the recipient lived only 18 days afterward from pneumonia due to being immunosuppressed.
What is:
South Africa
This city was plagued with serial murders in the 19th century for the lucrative business of selling fresh corpses to medical schools. It can only be assumed that all of the stomach contents were only haggis and Buckfast.
What is:
Edinburgh
In China, a tea is made with the dung of this animal and it's consumers are obsessed with the supposed health benefits, pointing to the animal's specific diet.
What is:
Panda
Use the latin term to derive the correct term
Situs solitus
CXR: no cardiopulmonary pathology
Normal organ placement
Situs - situation
Solitus - as usual
This doctor/politician of a famous thrombosis triad challenged Otto Von Bismarck to a duel. His Weapon of Choice? Sausages infected with Trichinella spiralis. The point was to try to funnel more money into sanitation food regulations instead of defense.
Who is:
Virchow
Dr. Einthoven first demonstrated this diagnostic procedure in 1887 in London and it landed him a well-deserved Nobel prize, though awarded posthumously.
What is:
EKG
It is widely believed that this "royal" American had Addison's disease. After steroids and back surgeries for compression fractures, he served in the United States Navy and later ascended to power.
Who is
JFK
This medicinal drug was made popular by the British and mixed with gin to enjoy when they got breaks between invading subtropical countries
What is:
Quinine (Gin and tonic)
Use the medical term to derive the layman's term
Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia
An affliction of the dog-days of summer
What is:
Ice-cream headache
This neurologist was famous for his study of language named this condition when the patient is "fluent" in nonsense.
Who is:
Wernicke
Soviet doctor Leonid Rogozov performed this procedure in 1961, the first surgery in Antarctica, but he did it on himself!
What is:
Appendectomy
This city is famous for soccer hooliganism, murderous gang wars over ice cream trucks, and a vicious headbutt colloquially named "a kiss". Oh, its University also developed a widely-used evaluation system for recipients of said "kiss".
What is:
Glasgow
In the 1900s, Sears and Roebuck teamed up with this Aspirin manufacturer to sell "Heroine", a less addictive(than morphine) cough suppressants for kids through their home catalog
What is:
Bayer
Use the Latin to derive the medical term
unguis incarnatus
You might see this walked into the procedure clinic...or limped
What is:
Ingrown toenail
(Nail in the flesh)
This clinical psychiatrist and neuroanatomist wrote his dissertation in the "Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie" after coordinating clinical findings to his "intertangled" pathology results
Who is:
Alzheimer
The first recorded successful conjoined twin separation occurred in Basel, Switzerland during this century. They were conjoined between the xiphoid process and the naval and the surgery happened in two events about a week apart.
What is:
17th Century (1689)
Dr. Robert Liston boasted that he was the fastest surgeon in London but after uttering the hubristic phrase, "Time me, gentlemen, time me", he could now boast to have the highest mortality rate for a single case, which was this.
What is:
300%
(The patient died of gangrene, he cut his surgical assistant who also contracted gangrene, and a spectator who died of fright from being nearly cut)
This drink was used to treat diarrhea in children, also coughs and infections. In some circles, it was used a currency and thought to be a direct gift from the holy feathered serpent.
What is:
Cacao
Use the latin to derive the correct medical term
formicatio
I guess he's hanging out with us before going to 4A.
What is
formication - the "creepy-crawling" feelings of bugs crawling under your skin
Dr. Wallenberg, a Jewish-German, described a stroke causing a constellation of hoarseness/dysphagia, horner's syndrome, ataxia, nausea/vomiting, which he localized to this artery. Later the Nazis stripped him of his research lab and he emigrated to the United States.
What is:
PICA