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Classify the diagnoses by urine color :
1. Brown 2. Red 3. Yellow |
1. Liver problem
2. Food or bleeding 3. Vitamin B2 |
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How many compounds can be found in urine?
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147
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Why did life expectancy increase so radically in the 20th century?
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Decrease in maternal mortality rate, antibiotics.
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In 2020, what is the predicted % of people over 65 year old in :
a) the US b) Japan c) the world |
a) 16
b) 28 c) 9 |
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What caused the downward spike in life expectancy graph in 1918?
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Spanish flu
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What is balsam?
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Ingredients extracted from plants with flavor. Thought to be medicinal.
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Where was found the 1918 viral strain prior to the characterization efforts?
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Frozen bodies in Alaskan permafrost.
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When was polio eradicated?
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In 1991 in America. Still present worldwide (less than 4000 cases a year).
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What is the life cycle of guinea worm disease?
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1. Person drinks water containing fleas (cyclops)
2. Gastric juices in the stomach digest it. 3. Fertilized female worms migrate. 4. Release. |
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How long before the symptoms of the kissing bug disease appear?
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10-20 years.
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How can Trypanosoma cruzii be controlled?
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A molecule may suppress a cysteine protease crucial for this parasite (at the K777 aa)
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What is a balloon angioplasty?
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surgical espohageal widening.
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What is a drug?
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Any chemical agent that affects living matter, or any preparation which, in a person's mind, has a beneficial effect on his or her well-being.
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How many beer recipes have the Sumerians prepared?
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16.
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Who used poppy as a painkiller for the first time?
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Sumerians.
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Who tried to exclude superstition from medicine?
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Hippocrates.
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According to Hippocrates, what was the way to treat night blindness?
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Give ox liver.
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Who thought that plants could lead to physiological reactions upon consumption?
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Dioscorides.
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Who prescribed the broth of fowl to treat hemorrhoids, constipation, leprosy and colds?
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Maimonides
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What terms did Paracelsus introduce?
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Poison and Potion.
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Who is behind the doctrine of signatures?
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Jakob Boehme
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What is ipecac?
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An emetic.
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What was the poison used by Romeo?
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Aconite
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Who discovered Foxglove?
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William Witherin
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What medication in the modern world uses Foxglove to treat failing hearts?
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Lanoxin.
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Who introduced sterilization techniques?
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Lister
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What was the function of thymol in the 50s? What is the function of thymol now?
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Used for dandruff control and deodorant. Now one of the active ingredients in Listerine.
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Fill in the blanks :
Half the children in ______ have malaria. This disease is transmitted by _____ of the 380 species of the ______ mosquito. The causing agent is _______. |
Congo, 60, Anopheline, Plasmodium falciparum.
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Quinine was named after who?
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Anna del Chinchon, wife of the Spanish viceroy to peru, who suffered from malaria and was treated with quinine.
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What effect does DDT have on birds? What effect does it have on humans?
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Weaker eggshells. None.
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Heroine was used in what in the 1850s-early 1900s?
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Heroin.
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What is inside Hoffmann's greatfind?
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Alcohol and Boneset.
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Who invented Salversan 606? What usually toxic element can you find inside?
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Paul Ehrlich. Arsenic.
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Thalidomide was prescribed for...?
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Motion sickness.
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What side effect could be experienced by women following use of thalidomide?
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Peripheral neuropathy.
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What side effect was experienced by the newborn of women who took thalidomide in the 1st trimester of their pregnancy?
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Shortening of limbs.
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Thalidomide is thought to have beneficial effects in the treatment of which diseases?
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MM, MS, IBD, Crohn's, aphtous ulcers, kaposi's, kidney, brain and breast cancer, hansen's disease.
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