Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 011

Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia. The format is starting to take shape – we will be trying to post questions on:

• Rare or eponymous syndromes
• Medical history or biography
• Bizarre and ‘out there’ medical trivia to baffle your colleagues

Deep Vein Thrombosis

Question 1

• What hereditary condition is associated with urinary odor of swimming pools?

Reveal Answer

Question 2

• What do the French call a Smiths fracture?

Reveal Answer

• Goyrand Fracture
• So named after the prominent French surgeon Jean-Gaspar-Blaise Goyrand (1803–1866) who clarified the anatomy of the many varieties of fractures of the distal radius.
• The French have alternative names for other eponymous fractures
  • A Pouteau fracture is the name used in France for a Colles fracture. Named after Claude Pouteau (1725–1775) the famous French  lithotomist

Goyrand Fracture

Question 3

• Who wrote,

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Reveal Answer

• Paracelsus
• Paracelsus (born Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland – died, 24 September 1541 in Salzburg, Austria)
• Paracelsus was a Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist and widely accepted as the Father of Toxicology.

Paracelsus

Question 4

• How did the James Bond villain Dr. No survive a shot to the chest?

Reveal Answer

• He had dextrocardia
• The wound would have penetrated his heart, except that he had dextrocardia.
  [Reference: Common Chest X-ray findings]

Dextrocardia

Question 5

• Name an ocular complication of bungee jumping?

Reveal Answer

• Retinal detachment

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Retinal detachment [NEJM