Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 215

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog 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 FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 215. Question 1 Sir Robert Jones from last week’s FFFF came from a strong line of ‘bone setters’, who was his uncle and what device did Jones promote that his uncle invented in World War one to reduce mortality in wounded soldiers? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet322877887'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink322877887')) Hugh Owen Thomas, the godfather of British Orthopaedics.  The invention in question was the Thomas splint, reducing mortality in femur fractures from 87% to 8%. [Reference] Question 2 What did the nymph Ondine do to her husband when he committed adultery, and what does that have to do with medicine? John William Waterhouse – Undine + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1645756756'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1645756756')) Ondine’s husband promised his every waking breath to her. On discovering his adultery she cursed him that so long as he was awake he could breathe, but if he ever fell asleep he would stop breathing and die. Ondine’s curse has therefore been coined for Co...
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