Word: antitoxins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until Nurse Bond arrived six days later, Miss Wilson made daily trips on snowshoes between her base camp four miles away and the Indian camp, where she was finally permitted to administer antitoxin to the hypodermic-shy natives. As she won the Indians' confidence, she learned that a 60-year-old woman had first come down with diphtheria in October. After that the disease had spread from tepee to tepee; three victims had already died. With antitoxin and penicillin strapped to their bodies to keep the drugs from freezing in the 40°-below weather, the two nurses examined...