Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 112

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…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 112 Question 1 How did Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin die? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1191031141'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1191031141')) Furunculosis Not by his invention, contrary to folklore, but by an infected carbuncle on his shoulder. Interestingly the first guillotine contraption was designed in Halifax, Yorkshire which was used as a deterrent for would be cloth thieves. The rope, pulley iron axe system between two wooden uprights may well have inspired Guillotin to come up with his mechanical method for execution. Guillotin apparently despised public executions which discriminated against the poor who were hung as opposed to the rich who were cleanly beheaded. Guillotin’s suggestions were noted by Dr Antoine Louis who was Secretary of the Academy of Surgeons. He produced the first guillotin as we know it but despite Guillotin’s family objecting his name stuck to the device. In its first ten years, historians estimate 15,000 people were decapitated. Only Nazi Germany has used it to execute more, with an estimated 40,000 criminals being guillotined between 1938 and 1945. [Reference – The general book of ignorance. The noticeably Stouter Edition. John Lloyd and John Mitchinson] Question 2 ...
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