Word: gastelum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities of Mexico City were vexed by this baptismal race against time. Then Dr. Gastelum, of the civic Sanitary Department conceived an idea. Next day he took a long, sharp hypodermic needle, fitted it to a syringe full of vaccine, stood at the cathedral door guarded by a lolling troop of soldiers...
...Gastelum jabbed often, jabbed deep, never changed or sterilized his needle, discouraged a considerable number of baptismal candidates...
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