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Disease

  1. What is onania, symptoms including palsies, distempers, consumptions, gleets, fluxes, ulcers, flts, madness, childlessness and death?

  2. What is pica?

  3. What diseases does Thersites list in "Troilus and Cressida" after insulting Patroclos, calling him Achilles's male whore?

  4. What would be the modern diagnosis of a person suffering from consumption?

  5. Name three operatic heroines who died from consumption?

  6. What was the effect of the virus in "The Andromeda Strain"?

  7. What disease is the biological cause of the mental disorder 'general parisis'?

  8. What is 'koro'?

  9. Why was Poe's fictional plague called "The Mask of the Red Death" in the short story by the same name?

  10. What is the advantage to being homozygous for sickle cell anemia?

  11. What was the chief symptom of the Clench, the disease of the 'Contagion' story arc in the Batman universe?

  12. What did Beth die of in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"?

  13. In the "Little House" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, how did Mary become blind?

  14. The answer to a) is medically unlikely, given our medical knowledge today. What was likely the real cause of Mary's blindness?

  15. What is the medical term for "pain behind the eyes"?

  16. This is a symptom of what disease?

  17. This symptom is useful in diagnosing what disorder in general?

  18. What widely used medication was derived from a witch's brew in 17th century England?

  19. Who "discovered" it?

  20. What was the active plant ingredient in the brew?

  21. This drug was used by the Germans in World War II as a "truth serum" for interrogating important prisoners. It is widely used today in the form of Transderm-Scop.

    1. Name the drug:

    2. What does Transderm-Scop treat?

  22. Who should never suffer from balanitis?

  23. Practicing Jews and Muslims should never get this disease?

  24. A fatal genetic disease afflicted folk singer Woodie Guthrie and his son Arlo. Name this disease.

  25. In C.S. Friedman's "In Conquest Born," what disease is used by the Braxana to assassinate their enemies?

  26. Chimps and apes have a different handprint than humans. Simians have a single, unbroken crease running transversely all the way across their palms, while most humans have a transverse crease that only extends part way across. Those few humans that have a simian crease usually also have an extra copy of chromosome 21. What is the name of this condition?

  27. According to folklore, carrying buckeyes, horse chestnuts, or potatoes are cures for what ailment?

  28. Name the three diseases with the highest mortality rates in the 1900's:

  29. What disease did each of the following probably have?

    1. Socrates--

    2. Beethoven--

    3. Hitler--

    4. Jefferson--

    5. Lincoln--

    6. George III--

    7. Schumann--

  30. What is the prescribed treatment for hardware disease?

Match the famous disease with the symptoms.

  1. Chills, headache, nausea & vomiting, followed by a spiking fever.

  2. Rash, oval or round lesion, pink outer border with a clear central area at onset, followed by cranial nerve palsies, headaches, neck pain, stiffness, confusion, agitation, memory loss.

  3. Patch of thickened and discolored skin, unresponsive to touch or pain, lesions often pustulent, hoarse voice, loss of lateral third of eyebrows.

  4. Swelling of legs, arms, face; loss of sensation in peripheral nervous system & paralysis.

  5. Grossly swollen lymph nodes (typically in groin and armpits); high fever, mental disorientation.

  6. Small painless ulcers followed by rash, fever, malaise, aches, followed by progressively destructive lesions, aneurysms, insanity.

  7. Progressively more severe frontal headache, fever, weakness, stiffening of joints, followed by red blood in stool and vomit.

  8. Slow onset of sustained fever, headache, cough, profound weakness.

  9. Diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration.

  10. Doubled or blurred vision, difficulty with speech & swallowing. Eventual paralysis and death.

  11. Fever, meningism, delirium, confusion, stupor, drowsiness, paralysis, coma & death.
  1. Beriberi
  2. Botulism
  3. Bubonic Plague
  4. Cholera
  5. Ebola
  6. Leprosy
  7. Lyme disease
  8. Malaria
  9. Encephalitis
  10. Syphilis
  11. Typhoid

Given the active ingredient, match the over-the-counter brand name for each of the following:

  1. acetominophen

  2. ibuprofen

  3. Doxylamine succinate

  4. Pseudoephrine succinate + ibuprofen

  5. Loperamione Hydrochloride

  6. Famotidine

  7. Naproxen Sodium

  8. Ranitidine Hydrochloride

  9. Bisacodyl

  10. Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride

  11. Guaifenesin

  12. Tetrahydrozoline Hydrochloride
  1. Benadryl
  2. Correctol
  3. Pepcid AC
  4. Advil
  5. Aleve
  6. Zantac 75
  7. Robitussin
  8. Tylenol
  9. Rolaids
  10. Unisol
  11. Immodium AD
  12. Sudafed

Match product with advertised claim:

  1. HPG -C7

  2. Regina Royal Jelly

  3. Allegra

  4. Dexatrim

  5. Pravachol

  6. Taxol

  7. Ortho-tricylcin

  8. Marijuana

  9. Prilosec

  10. Imotrex

  11. AZT

  1. Treats migraines
  2. Treatment for breast cancer, post-chemotherapy
  3. Weight loss drug
  4. Nutritional supplement for sexier, more beautiful breasts
  5. Treatment for chronic glaucoma and cancer
  6. Antihistamine
  7. Lowers cholesterol
  8. Treatment for AIDS
  9. Helps insomnia, fatigue, asthma, improves immune system
  10. Birth control, acne treatment
  11. Treatment for heartburn

What causes each of the following diseases (bacterium, virus, protozoa, genetics, or fungus)?

  1. Dysentery

  2. Botulism

  3. Herpes

  4. Gonorrhea

  5. Giardiasis

  6. Bubonic Plague

  7. Ebola

  8. Chagas disease

  9. Tuberculosis

  10. Whooping Cough

  11. Mononucleosis

  12. Lyme Disease

  13. Malaria

  14. Syphilis

  15. Tay-Sachs

  16. Tetanus

  17. Rabies

  18. Polio

  19. Influenza

  20. Huntington's disease

  21. Meningitis

  22. Typhoid

  23. Leprosy

  24. Mumps

  25. St. Antony's Fire

  26. Smallpox

  27. Parkinson's disease