Esther E. Leonard Medical School Notes - ca. 1917
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1. How do you diagnose Cerumen in the ear, Give treatments, What complications from the condition, and also improper treatment 2 What diseases might be complicated by a running ear, how prevented, what symptoms would point to a beginning involvement of the ear in such cases 3. What symptoms have you in Hastoid involvement, if it is acute in character, if chronic in character 4 What are the symptoms of Temporal Lobe abscess following an ear condition 5 What are the symptoms of Cerbellar Lobo abscess 6 How do you treat an acute otitis that has not as yet perforated, how if perforated 7 Give an idea of the treatments for a Chronic Otitis with a foul discharge 8 Give symptoms and treatment for Jugular Sinus Thrombosis 9 A patient comes to you for hard hearing what would be your method of making a diagnosis and prognosis, what treatments would you advise in the various conditions 10 How do you remove animats objects from the ear canal; Inanimate objects.
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CHEMISTRY. 1. Give the formula for sulphuric acid, and how made commercially? 2. Give formulae for nitric and hydrichloric acids. 3. Give formula for lead acetate. What kind of chemical is it? 4. How is Fowlers Solution used? What is dose and antidote? 5. What is the strength of a tincture and fluid extract?
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GYNECOLOGY. 1. Give early diagnosis and treatment of cancer of the uterus. 2. What are the dangers of a female from a latent gonorrhoea? 3. Is ventrofixation justifiable? If so, under what circumstances? 4. Give differential diagnosis between ovaritis and ovaralgia. 5. Give operation in detail for repair of a complete laceration of the perineum.
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PEDIATRICS. 1. Name some of the causes that produce Rickets. 2. Do you consider Rickets a disease of the bony structures only, or is it a general disturbance of metabolism? 3. Name the more common symptoms found in a case of Hypertrophy of the Pylorus in an infant. 4. Name the more commonly found varieties of intestinal worms. 5. How wouldyyou treat a case of Icterus Neonatorum?
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PATHOLOGY. 1. Describe a tubercle. 2. Give etiology and describe the process of development in osteomyelitis. 3. Discuss briefly the etiology of cirrhosis of the liver and describe (by writing or drawing) the microscopical appearance of two varieties. 4. What is an infarct, a thrombus, an embolus? Will hyperbyrexia cause any of these? If so, which one and of what nature? 5. Name the pathological changes you might expect in a case of tabes dorsalis.
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Dr. Matthews. June 18, 19, 20, 1917. HYGIENE. 1. What precaution should be observed in regard to the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases among school children? 2. What physical deformity is most prevalent among school children and why is it apt to be more common among girls. 3. In what part of an occupied room is the most impure air found and why? 4. What are the products of respiration and perspiration and which of these is most harmful to health. 5. What infectious and contagious diseases are communicated through the medium of the air? What through foods? What by insects?
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PHYSIOLOGY. 1. What is the function of the Island of Langherhand? Locate them. 2. What is the function of the Ceri Bellum? Where located? 3. What is the Island of Rhiel, and where located? 4. What is the function of the liver? 5. Give the process of digestion. 6. How do toxines enter the blood, and from where mostly? 7. Explain why blood pressure rises and falls. 8. Explain why temperature rises and falls to subnormal. 9. What is the function of the kidneys? 10. What is the function of the spleen?
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MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. 1. Describe a proper medical investigation and autopsy in a case of suspected homicide. 2. What are the means by which the identity of a living individual may be established? 3. Give five elementary signs in the distinction of suicidal, accidental and homicidal gunshot wounds. 4. How is criminal abortion most commonly produced? How can it be detected in the living? 5. Give the elements of responsibility and of relief from responsibility in criminal malpractice.
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Dr. Jones June 18, 19, 20, 1917. BACTERIOLOGY. 1. Give technique of the Gram stain. Name five gram positive and five gram negative organisms. 2. What is an aerobe, an anaerobe, obligatory anaerobe, toxin and endotoxin? Give bacteria as example of each. 3. What is the earliest positive method of diagnosis in typhoid fever? Describe the theory and principle of the Widal reaction. 4. What is an antitoxin? a vaccine? Discuss briefly just how immunity is produced by the administration of antityphoid vaccine. 5. Describe the process of staining for tubercle bacilli. Give your laboratory proceedure in a case of renal tuberculosis.
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OBSTETRICS. 1. Define puerperal sepsis, and state how to prevent it and how to overcome it. 2. What is auto-infection? 3. What are the most frequent complications of the puerperal period? 4. What means are employed to stimulate effective uterine contractions? 5. What is the proper method of delivering and adherent placenta? 6. How would you manage a brow presentation? 7. Name three important forms of hemorrhage in obstetric practice, and methods of management. 8. Give method of delivering in a breech presentation. 9. What care does the mother and child require after labor? 10. Give treatment in a case of placenta praevia.
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Dr. Matthews. June 18, 19, 20, 1917. ANATOMY. 1. Describe the ankle joint. Name and describe its ligaments. 2. Describe the carpal bones and give their articulations. 3. Name and describe the lbbes of the brain. 4. Name the cranial nerves and describe the seventh. 5. Describe the circle of Willis. 6. Describe the two principle arteries of the fore-arm, and tell how they form the Palmar Arches. 7. Describe the stomach, including location, shape, dimensions and capacity. 8. Name and locate the ductless glands. 9. In fracture of the shaft of the Radius, near its center, what muscles are involved in displacement of the fragments? 10. Give origin, course, exit and parts supplied by second pair of Cranial nerves.
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THERAPEUTICS. (Answer only 10 questions - no more) 1. Give the medicinal treatment of simply parenchymatous goitre. 2. Give a short discussion on the treatment of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. 3. Discuss the use of the salicyl compounds in the treatment of rheumatism. 4. Name three drugs that might be useful in the treament of asthma. Briefly discuss their action. 5. Name three drugs that you would use in the treament of acute Brights Disease and give results expected from their use. 6. Give the physiological action of Gelsemium. 8. Give the physiological action of belladonna. 9. Give the physiological action of digitalis. 10. Give the physiological action of opium. 11. Give the physiological action of Apis Mel. 12. Give the therapeutics of cimcifuga. 13. Give the therapeutics of Nux Vomica. 14. Give the therapeutics of phosphorus. 15. Give the therapeutics of uses of the zinc salts.
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| Title | Esther E. Leonard Medical School Notes - ca. 1917 |
| Creator | Leonard, Esther E. |
| Source | Leonard, Esther E. Medical School Notes. ca. 1917. Leonard, Esther, Dr. Papers (1914-1919). A1814. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | This is a collection of various medical notes taken by Dr. Esther E. Leonard in 1917. Dr. Leonard served as a contract surgeon during World War I at the U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1 in New York City and at an evacuation hospital in Vichy, France. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Sanitary Corps; World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--United States; World War, 1914-1918--Women |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1814 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | ca. 1917 |
| Language | English |