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 TreatmentC) 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 TreatmentC) 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
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?
A) Gastroscope: for Viewing Stomach
B) Modified Form of the Bergonie Treatment
C) Feeding Bottles and Methods of CleansingD) 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
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
ReplyDeleteLaughed out loud at this.
ReplyDeletePleased 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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