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DOC TRIALS

FARZANA UNNIKAMU

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ROUND 1

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• Who is regarded as the father of plastic surgery having performed and explained the first nasal reconstruction in the history of medicine?

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SUSHRUTHA laid down the basic

principles of plastic surgery and described various methods for different types of defects.

He also performed the first cataract surgery before 800B.C. using a curved needle and a warm butter soak.

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After a study conducted it was found that this deficiency is found quite commonly among orthodox Muslim women . What deficiency is it?

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VITAMIN D deficiency due to their lack of exposure to sunlight owing to the burkha and of course restricted life style.

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X is a movie starring father and son bachchans revolving around the life of a boy suffering from a particular syndrome Y and the reunion of his mother and father.

Give me X & Y

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Progeria is a genetic disorder that accelerates the aging process and causes the death of the person at a young age. The average age of the person suffering from Progeria is 13 years and the death could be caused by age related diseases like heart attack and stroke.

AMITABH as Auro

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EMERSON MOSER, Crayola’s head crayon maker only at the time of his retirement revealed that he was in fact ___, leaving the board dumbstruck.

What was the condition he had hidden all

through his career?

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In his retirement and resignation letter Emerson Moser revealed to his board that he was blue–green

colorblind…

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“When I woke up on Sept. 28 1928 I certainly didn’t expect to revolutionize all

medicine by discovering the world’s first __ But I suppose that’s exactly what I did.”

ID the person on the left.

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ALEXANDER FLEMMING

…World’s first antibiotic (penicillin)

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This term arises from 2 names in Greek mythology – the second part of the word from phobus, the Greek god of fear and the first part named after a girl who challenged goddess Athena to a weaving contest. The result of the contest enraged the goddess and she punished the girl by changing her into a ___ ….

What is the term?

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ARACHNOPHOBIARACHNOPHOBIAAThe fear of spiders:

Arachno from Arachne the name of the girl who challenged the goddess and was changed into a spider as punishment for her pride and the disrespect for the Gods she displayed in her work.

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Tendocalcaneous is the thickest and strongest tendon in the body. It is about 15 centimeters (6 in) long - has no major arteries or veins running through it. What is it popularly and very commonly known as owing to its mention in Greek mythology?

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ACHILLE’S HEEL / TENDON.

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It is based on the belief that ‘if a substance taken in large doses will produce symptoms of a specific disease then in extremely small doses this substance will cure the same disease.’

What is ‘it’ ?

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HOMEOPATHY

The law of similars formulated by Samuel Hahnemann, father of homeopathy

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This condition is one of the most common causes of death in developing countries and also the second most common cause of infant death (the first being malnutrition). The name of the condition arises from a Greek word meaning “flowing through” …..

What is the condition?

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Diarrhoea

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ROUND 2

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Bhuta vidya – one of the 8 disciplines of Ayurveda

treatment corresponds to which branch of modern

medicine?

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Bhuta vidya translating to ‘demonic possession’ is the same as

psychiatry in modern medicine, focusing on mental disturbances

and illness.

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‘___’referred to a medical condition thought in ancient Greece to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus-- supposedly the movement of a woman's uterus to various locations within her body as it became light and dry due to a lack of bodily fluids.

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HYSTERIA

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Connect

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Guy De Maupassant ,

Winston Churchill,

Al Capone.

…. All three were diagnosed with the STD syphilis.

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Who was the famous scientist who discovered spermatozoa using his own invention?

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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek,Father of microscopy.

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The tubercle indicated on the ear Is evidence of a vestigial feature

indicating common ancestry among primates (An atavistic feature).

Name the tubercle.

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• DARWIN’S TUBERCLE

It’s description first published in the opening pages of ‘the descent of man’ by Charles Darwin.

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6. SCHIZOPHRENIA

Commonly known as split personality- The term Arises from Greek : schizo meaning split and phrenium meaning diaphragm – why split diaphragm when the condition has nothing to do with the diaphragm and is purely neurological ?

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• The authors of all the given novels Is/were doctors.

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This is…..?8.

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The plague doctor. --special medical

physicians of the Middle Ages who saw those who had the bubonic plague. They were specifically hired by towns that had many plague victims in times of the plague epidemic.

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9. X was one of the most famous among the plague doctors. X was a

French apothecary who was expelled from the university he

attempted to learn medicine in.. X very famous for his prophecies (then and even now) is … ?

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NOSTRADAMUS

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X was a severe epidemic 1557-’58 that caused the death of Y allowing her younger half sister to ascend the throne. X was also known as the ‘sweating sickness’

Give me X and Y.

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• X – ‘INFLUENZA’ also known as the sweating sickness.

• Y – MARY TUDOR better known as “Bloody Mary” whose younger half sister queen Elizabeth ascended the throne as she had no children of her own.

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‘Ring around the roses, Pocket full of posy, Ashes to ashes, We all fall down…..’ --the famous lines from the rhyme

referring to the plague. Which artist used these lines in one of his hit songs and when asked said the song is about ‘taking a walk’.

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DAVE MATHEWS

- Grave digger

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12. CONNECT

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LORD GANESHA &MANSOUR ALI KHAN PATOUDI

.. Xenografts .. Lord Ganesha with the xenograft of the head of an elephant and Pataudi with the cornea of a goat.

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• The external surface of ____ has many elevations and depressions/furrows and its print is unique to every individual as is the finger print.

The study of these prints is known as cheiloscopy.

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Cheiloscopy : the study of

LIP PRINTS

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14. HANSEN’S DISEASE

• Is the eponym given to a well known disease the name of which in Greek means “scale” or “peel”, however the word came into English via Latin and old French.

• The first attested English use is in the Ancrene Wisse, a 13th-century manual for nuns

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LEPROSY

• Hansen’s disease named after G.H.A.Hansen a Norwegian bacteriologist…

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15. Queen Cleopatra would use the juice from the plant Atropa belladona topically to appear more alluring to the men she wished to attract…

What exactly is the effect of the juice?

it was also used widely by women in ancient Greece for the same purpose..

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The juice (atropine) when applied to the eye caused – mydriasis (pupil dilation) believed to give a

woman a more inviting, irresistible, alluring appearance…

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16. X = ?• X was regarded as vampirism as it seemed that

if one member of the family died of it the other members slowly show a deterioration in health and eventually pass away in the same fashion-believed to happen because the first was draining the life out of them.

• Also the infected just like vampires would be pale, lean, with a weak pulse & low body T and coughed blood.

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TUBERCULOSIS

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17.“The leather apron” was one of the nick names given to the infamous unidentified person around the mid-19th century (when there was a sudden influx of immigrants), suspected to be a doctor.

Also there is no wax figure of this person at Madam Tussauds Chamber of Horrors, in accordance with their policy of not modeling persons whose likeness is unknown.

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JACK THE RIPPER

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18. This disease was responsible for the death of over 60,000 U.S. troops in Africa and in the south pacific during the second world war. The name of the disease arises from 2 Latin words meaning “bad” and “air” as it was believed that the disease spread through contaminated air (a misnomer).

the disease?

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MALARIAArising from “malus”- bad/improper

and “aria” – air.

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CONNECT

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Schizophrenia

PABLO PICASSO, SYD BARRETT AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ALL 3 SUFFERED FROM:

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20. One of The most widely practiced ancient

methods of suturing involved the use of what

and how...???

( still followed in some parts of Africa…)

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SOLDIER ANTS

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21. ELEPHANTIASIS / FILARIASIScan be diagnosed in the

laboratory by demonstration from a blood sample which is to

be taken when?

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A blood sample is taken only at night b/n 10 pm and

2 am as the worm is believed to have nocturnal

tendencies and stays lodged within the lymphatic

system during the day time….

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22. This song by Billie holiday

called ‘strange fruit’ is actually a poem written by Abel Meeropol a

Jewish school teacher about …..what?

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Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at

the root,Black body swinging in the

Southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the

popular trees.Pastoral scene of the gallant

South,The bulging eyes and the twisted

mouth,Scent of magnolia sweet and

fresh,Then the sudden smell of burning

flesh!Here is fruit for the crows to

pluck,For the rain to gather, for the

wind to suck,For the sun to rot, for the tree to

drop,Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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Thank you