Sahityaki - Medical Trivia Quiz Finals - Doctors/Scientists Round

1. Shambhu Nath De joined the Nilratan Sircar Medical College, he began research on a disease, and after investigations found the mechanism of damage by the bacteria causing the disease. This discovery was published in Nature in 1959, although for the next five years nobody noticed it. Today it is hailed as the cornerstone of research in that disease all over the world; and has helped in the development of an oral vaccine for the disease. What disease?

2. His mentor was called ‘the Father of Tropical Medicine’, whom he met in London in 1894, and who gave him an idea upon which he set himself. In April 1897, while holidaying with his wife, he was himself infected with the disease he was investigating. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for his monumental discovery. His quote: ‘Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.’ He died in 1932, with parting words, ‘I shall find out things, yes, yes!’ On the sixtieth anniversary of his discovery his close friend John Masefield, by then Poet Laureate, published a commemorative poem in The Times:

Once on this August day, an exiled man
Striving to read the hieroglyphics spelled
By changing speckles upon glass, beheld
A secret hidden since the world began.

Who is this scientist?

This Scottish lady was an advocate of birth control, and was also a suffragette (campaigned for the right of women to vote), and a palaeontologist, with her husband she founded the first birth control clinic at Holloway, London in 1921. was opposed to chemical methods of contraception, famously saying: "Never put anything in your vagina that you would not put in your mouth!"

4. Why did Fleming keep Penicillium in continuous culture when he was disappointed by its clinical utility?

5. He observed death rates in wards where medical students were trained on cadaver were higher than in wards exclusively for prenatal patients. He insisted on disinfection of patients with Ca hypochlorite and decreased the incidence of puerperal fever from 15% to almost zero. But received much abuse from his colleagues, who resented his assertions of uncleanliness. He went insane and died of septicaemia after pricking his finger. Who?

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