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1. Herman Mynderts van den Bogaert was made NYC's first surgeon in 1630 by the West India Company. What was Herman's ship job before he started doing the slicing in the operations in the first Dutch medical office ?
2. NYC citizens carried bits of chared rope in their hands to disinfect them anytime they touched anything. Asefetida in the early days was probably the most adulterated drug in the world market. Wearing bags of asefetida (a strong foul smelling herb that has a sulfurous odor) around their necks was common during the (yellow fever) summer months. Most yellow fever victums before death experienced what color vomit ?
3. In 1735 NYC decided to aid its indigent, by opening NYC's first hospital in City Hall Park . This two story brick building for beggars, paupers, tramps and vagrants was called what ?
5. A 1791 epidemic killed 100 people around Peck Slip, In 1794 more died by Cherry and Water streets. Sniffing camphor soaked sponges was the rage in the 1795, to avoid the fever. NYC citizens drank vinegar to fight off sickness. Drinking what kind of oil was used as a cure for the common cold ?
8. The Hospital in question opened in 1736, to aid the care of lunatics and paupers. In 1856 this NYC hospital seperated from the almshouse. This Hospital in 1850, was the first in the United States to use hypodermic needles. What Hospital was it ?
10. What test was first developed at New York Hospital in 1943 ?
11. First signs of yellow fever were headaches, backaches, general muscle pains, nausea, bleeding of gums and vomiting. Some victums skin turned yellow, which gave yellow fever its name. About 570 New Yorkers died in 1702 of yellow fever. What percentage of NYC's population was killed by yellow fever in the year 1702 ?
15. According to Benjamin Rush (signer of the Declaration of Independence and the head of a US Army medical team) the state of the blood vessel was the cause of yellow fever. Benjamin also thought rotten vegetables caused fevers and yellow fever was caused by rotting what ?
16. When one of New York Hospitals reopened after the Revolutionary war, NYC stopped placing the mentally ill in prisons and almhouses. What was this first institution in NYC (and NY state) to care for mental disorders as a medical problem not a social one in 1791 ?
17. Cholera affected mainly the poorer neighborhoods. The 1832 NYC cholera epidemic which killed 3,500 people was caused by bad what ?
18. Proof of the real cause of Yellow Fever came in 1900, when an infected mosquito was tested on a soldier from Troop B, Seventh Cavalry named William. What was William's last name ?
20. Bedloes Island Pesthouse opened in 1758, to quarantine the contagious. New York Hospital opened May 28, 1771. Mount Sinai began in 1852, as the Jews Hospital in the City of New York on 28th street between 7th and 8th Avenues. Mount Sinai moved to Lexington between 66th and 67th streets in 1872, and 100th street in 1904. St Vincents hospital opened on 11th Street and 7th Avenue in 1856, it is Roman Catholic. What nationality Dispensary was Lenox Hill Hospital when it started at 132 Canal Street ?
21. The Eastern Dispensary was on the NW corner of Essex and Broome Streets. The building for a 1895 free health care hospital for the local indigent is still located at 75 Essex. It also became the Good Samaritan Dispensary. Edgar Allan Poe was treated for a headcold in 1837 at the Northern Dispensary. The Northern Dispensary was a 1831 NYC building that has two sides on one street (Christopher Street) and one street on two sides. What is the name of the street that is on two sides of the Northern Dispensary ?
22. In 1638, Hans Kiersted became the first surgeon of the Dutch West India Company to come to NYC. He became the top colonial physician, his Kiersted or Kierstede ointment was used as an what ?
24. On April 25, 1856, the Thirteenth Street and Second Avenue New York Eye Infirmary building was dedicated and opened. Edward Delafield himself gave the dedication address of this 4 story brownstone. The North building of the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, opened in 1968 on Fourteenth Street and Second Avenue, adjoining the 1856 building on 13th street. Three floors of the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary were added in 1890, and its remodeling was handled by an architect named Mr. White. What was this famous architect's first name ?
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1. What kind of people did Nathan's in Coney Island pay to be dressed up by their employees in medical attire ? These fake doctors were paid to sit at their counters so Nathan's looked busy. When customers who came off the train saw all the Doctors eatting at Nathan's, they figured it was safe to eat. Nathan even put up a sign reading - If doctors eat our hot dogs, you know they're good!
2. Worried about quarantine, in 1798, two plots of eight city lots were bought in Greenwich Village by Waverly and 11th Street, to move the Bank of New York to the clean (and safe) air of the country. Who at the Bank of New York was the victum of a NYC yellow fever epidemic that started the movement of business to Greenwich village ?
4. Construction started in 1775 on the gray two story Bridewell Prison and workhouse (demolished in 1838). What kind of ill patients were locked up in Bridewell Prison because it was seen as a social problem at this time ?
6. In 1736 Bellevue Hospital was first called the Public Work House when it was a 6 bed infirmary located in City Hall Park. In 1794, the hospital that would become Bellevue moved to 26th and 1st Avenue, in 1811 the almshouse on 150 acres stretched from 23rd to 28th streets east of 2nd Avenue. Bellevue's name was born in 1825, and the hospital was surrounded by filth, neglect and epidemic which caused multiple deaths. The original Bellevue Hospital was also called the Home of what ?
7. Bellevue started as a workhouse and penitentiary in 1736 with only 6 beds for the sick, by 1814 the mentally ill were being treated medically. In 1847 what kind of students did Bellevue started hiring ?
9. Another German Dispensary was a 3 story 1884 building at 37 2nd Avenue (now Cabrini), located next to the Ottendorfer Library in the old Kleindeutschland section of NYC. What part of the Village was the German section called Kleindeutschland ?
12. Johannes la _________ was NYC's first real physician who arrived in the spring of 1637. Johannes was also one of the founders of Harlem who ran the DeForest tobacco plantation. One of his daughters married Jacob Kip (Kips Bay).
13. Johannes La Montagne was a Huguenot physician who came to NYC in 1637, and quickly outclassed the local shop surgeons. Jacob L Orange was appointed in 1658, by the West Indies Company to practice in NYC. Jacob Hendricksen Varravanger was not a real physician, yet on December 23 1658, with one matron and a simple house he established the first NYC medical office for the companies negros and sick what ?
14. Yellow Fever first occured in the Yukatan and the island of Guadeloupe in 1648. Yellow fever did not hit Africa until 1768. In the forest pattern of yellow fever, monkeys were the primary host that infected humans. Yellow Fever was an occupational disease of people cutting down the forests, and rousing the mosquitos that lived in the top of the trees. The slave trade moved the fever around the world. Ships brought yellow fever to NYC in 1668, Boston in 1691 and Charleston in 1699. The Great Sickness epidemic of NYC (yellow fever) of 1703, was traced to a ship that came from what island ?
18. A baker on Whitehall Street named William was an early NYC yellow fever victum. On September 8, 1795 William became the 1st patient to escape Bellevue. What was his last name ?
19. On August 14, 1820, two small rooms on the second floor of 45 Chatham Street (now 83 Park Row), a house across from City Hall became the first Infirmary of Edward Delafield, M.D., and John Kearney Rodgers, M.D. Hours were 12-1 PM on Mon, Wed & Fri. The first permenant home of the New York Eye Infirmary was at a building they finally bought (instead of renting since 1820). What street did they open their first permenant infirmary on (at # 97) where they saw patients from 1845 - 1856 ?
23. A 1791 epidemic killed 100 people around Peck Slip, In 1794 more died by Cherry and Water streets. NYC citizens thought that shallow graves were the cause of Yellow Fever. Infected parts of the city were chained off and then watered down with fire hoses to clean up the abandoned contagious area. NYC once burned what in the streets to clean the air of the yellow fever sickness ?
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