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Word: antitetanus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, noticed that the patients remain calm, even when planes roar overhead. Veterinarians say they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along on a straw substitute. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War-Horse Hospital | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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