Sun February 3, 2013 Local Doctor Honors Medicine's Past In New
Museum Medicine is changing pretty fast these days, with new
procedures, treatments and drugs coming out all the time. But
one area doctor has been out on a mission to pay homage to
medicine’s past: the mistakes, breakthroughs and lessons that
might be taken for granted today. Dr. Bruce Hodges started out
collecting medical relics from around the region as a kind of
hobby, but it has grown way beyond the confines of his house.
Dr. Hodges' "Medicine's Hall of Fame and Museum" opens Tuesday,
February 19, in Shawnee, Kansas. In the meantime, test how well
your own medical-trivia knowledge matches that of Dr. Hodges in
this museum-inspired quiz: 1. What disease was completely
eradicated by 1979? - Yellow Fever 2. What was first U.S.
President George Washington’s real cause of death? - Horse
accident - Old age 3. What practice greatly reduced deaths on
the maternity wards in the mid-19th-century? - Administering
aspirin - Hand washing Answers: 1. (1)