Friday, 4 December 2020

The Doctor's Round

 Another quiz and another post from The Concise Home Doctor (date of publication still unknown). Here are ten more illustrations, each with four possible captions, some of which I also lifted from the book, some of which I've – probably obviously - made up. Which caption is correct? Answers are in the comments.
 
1.

A) Baths: The Schnee Bath
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Romberg's Test in Ataxia
D) Incontinence: A Checklist
 
 
2.

A) Choosing the Right Chair
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Development: Symmetrical Strength and the Muscle Cult
D) Breathlessness: Hopping and Stepping Up Tests for Physical Fitness

 
3.
 
A) Holger Nielsen Method of Artificial Respiration
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Eye: Removing Metal by Electro-Magnet
D) Finsen Light: Pioneer Apparatus in Artifical Sunlight Treatment

 
 4.
 
A) Constipation: Exercise to Compress the Abdomen
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Teaching the Deaf-Blind
D) Balance of the Body: Tests for its Proper Functioning


5.
 
A) Fire: Instant First Aid Methods
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Combustion, Spontaneous: How to Indentify
D) Dandruff: Dangers of the Common Brush


6.

A) Bad Nauheim: The Sprudel or Principal Spring
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Exercise: Promoting Flexibility in Arm and Hand
D) Has This Book Been Poisoned?
 

 7.
 
A) Gastroscope: for Viewing Stomach
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Feeding Bottles and Methods of Cleansing
D) How to Dye the Hair
 
 
8.

A) Out-Patients and In-Patients at Two Institutions Devoted to the Care of Suffering Animals 
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) How to Stop Worrying
D) Dogs: Elizabethan Collars

 
9.
 
A) Decompression Chamber as used in the Royal Navy
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Draughts: How These Are Caused
D) One Way of Spreading Consumption
 
 
10.

A) Curvature: A Crawling Cure
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Protection Against Drain Gases
D) Filariasis: Disease Due to Minute Worm

3 comments:

  1. AND HERE ARE THE ANSWERS... 1:- A) It's the Schnee Bath. 2:- D) Hopping and Stepping Up Tests for Physical Fitness. I suppose these are probably still valid. 3:- C) Metal being removed by an electro-magnet I'm afraid. 4:- D) Balance of the Body: Tests for its Proper Functioning. Why? What did you think it was? 5:- A) Fire: Instant First Aid Methods. Not that informative, let's face it. 6:- C) Exercise: Promoting Flexibility in Arm and Hand. 7:- A) A gastroscope for viewing stomachs. Not sure whose. 8:- D) Elizabethan Collars. I swear to God. 9:- C) How draughts are caused. Apparently a door is open. 10:- A) Curvature: A Crawling Cure

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  2. Pleased to say I guessed most of these right (not Elizabethan collars though – ??) but now I am really curious what a Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment actually IS.

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