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David asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 1 decade ago

medicine man movies questions need help please 10 points to best answers?

1. What is happening to the Brazilian rain forest throughout the film? Why is this being done?

2. Dr. Campbell insists that Dr. Crane wear a surgical mask when she is around the natives. Why?

3. What is Dr. Campbell analyzing?

4. What disease did the native woman have?

5. What happened when Dr. Campbell injected her with the substance he extracted from the bromeliad plants?

6. What are the guinea pigs infected with & why?

7. What happens to the guinea pig with lymphoma after being injected with the bromeliad extract?

8. What is Dr. Campbell looking for in the Brazilian tropical rain forest?

9. Name of the group of plants that seem to contain the chemical Dr. Campbell is looking for.

10. Why don't the natives in the area get cancer?

11. Nine million aboriginal natives lived in South America & now there are about 1/4 million left. What happened to them?

12. What has happened to the level of the river & the amount of rain in the area in the movie? Why is this happening?

13. Only Dr. Campbell's first bromeliad extract sample contains compound #37, the 8 other samples do not. How do the 2 scientists explain this?

14. What does Dr. Crane find & wash off of her bromeliad?

15. What is making the little native boy sick?

16. What does the native medicine man tell Dr. Campbell about the bromeliad plants & their medicine?

17. How will the building of the road affect Dr.Campbell's research?

18. What does Dr.Campbell find in the sugar bowl?

19. What do Drs. Campbell & Crane now realize?

20. Why do the natives call Dr. Campbell "depsewa" or medicine man?

Whoever answers these +10 !!!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    1. Deforrestation

    2. She may be carrying diseases for which the natives have no immunities.

    3. A solution made by the local medicine man,

    4. Cancer

    5. Her tumor disappears

    6. Cancer.. To give Crane test subjects to test the solution Cambell has from the old medicine man and show her that it's real..

    6. Cancer

    7. It's tumor ddisappeared

    8. Medicines

    9. Orchid

    10. They regularly ingest the ants in their diet so they are getting the cure on a regular basis and don't develop tumors..

    11. Some died out or relocated due to deforestation.. Others died out due to the introduction of disease by explorers.. Tribal natives lived in closed societies so they did not have immunities to many diseases brought in by explorers, these disease wiped out entire populations..

    12. The river rises and the rain increases.. It's the rainy season so some rain and rise in the river is normal and expected, however the ddeforestationhas made it rain more and the river rise more than usual...

    13. The first sample is from the batch made by the old medicine man he didn't remove the ants which are the key to the compound working..

    14. Ants

    15. A tumor

    16. He tells Cambell the flower is not the cure...

    17. The road is bringing in logging which destroying the forrest and thus the flowers and ants taking away his research subject..

    18. Ants

    19.. They realize the cure isn't in the flower it's in the ants..

    20. Cambell used western medicine <Alka-Seltzer> to cure the indigestion of a boy from the tribe.. In doing to so he usurped the tribes original medicine man and taking his place within their society..

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    medicine man movies questions need help please 10 points to best answers?

    1. What is happening to the Brazilian rain forest throughout the film? Why is this being done?

    2. Dr. Campbell insists that Dr. Crane wear a surgical mask when she is around the natives. Why?

    3. What is Dr. Campbell analyzing?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Indiana Jones was not placed inside a fireplace. He and his father moved their chairs into the fireplace to avoid the fire out in the room. I suspect this person is looking for a movie where an individual was bound and thrown into a lit fireplace.

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