In celebration of the College of Medicine’s 125th anniversary, UNMC Today is publishing a daily historical question and inviting UNMC employees to send their answers to today@unmc.edu.
The first person to respond correctly will win a free, gray T-shirt commemorating the College of Medicine’s 125th anniversary. There will be no repeat winners. Answers will be published the following day, along with the next question. Winners will be contacted by UNMC Public Affairs, as well as announced in UNMC Today.
The series ends June 14, when the campus community is invited to a free carnival to celebrate the College of Medicine’s anniversary. The carnival — complete with cotton candy, games and prizes — will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Swanson Courtyard (west of the Durham Outpatient Center). Carnival goers will be treated to a jazz band, jugglers and clowns. T-shirts also will be available for purchase.
Congrats to Sean Duffy, internal medicine-cardiology, for correctly answering:
Question 3 –What faculty member at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine was mentioned in Osler’s famous 1902 textbook?
Answer — In his famous textbook of medicine, William Osler recognized Dr. William Forsyth Milroy, a highly regarded teacher at the College of Medicine as the person who described hereditary lymphedema, thereafter known as Milroy’s Disease. Osler wrote: “Milroy, of Omaha, has described cases of hereditary oedema, twenty-two individuals in six generations in which there existed from birth a solid oedema of one or of both legs, without any special inconvenience or any progressive increase of the disease.”
Here is the next question — good luck!
Question 4 — The highest award of the national fraternity Phi Rho Sigma is named for a former dean of the College of Medicine. Who is he?