Word: lockjaw
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...most violent and fatal of infectious diseases is tetanus or lockjaw, caused by the tetanus bacillus which dwells in earth, manure, intestines of many animals, rusty nails and tools. The germs usually enter a dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes...
...Calcutta railway station many months ago promenaded one Amarendra Nath Pandey, a rich, youngish man who feared assassination. Warrant for his fear-someone (his stepbrother, he suspected) had dabbed lockjaw germs on the nosepiece of his spectacles. The germs had almost caused his death...
...having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year- old Thomas Fitzgerald, of Ocean City, N. J., ill in hospital with lockjaw, received, for no reason that the Press could discover, a letter wishing for his early recovery and signed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said Thomas Fitzgerald: "I wouldn't take $5,000 for that letter." Week before a similar letter was addressed to 13-year-old Kevin Reardon of Camden, N. J. whose...
...well nourished, was brought into the Indianapolis City Hospital at 5:15 p. m., Oct. 26, 1928. She had taken 100 one-thirtieth grain (0.002 gm.) strychnine sulphate tablets at 1 p. m. after a heavy meal. . . . She immediately had a severe generalized convulsion with opisthotonos [body arched], trismus [lockjaw], risus sardonicus [a taut, toothy grin], complete extension of the extremities, and cyanosis [purpling of the skin and mucous membrane]. . . . She was given 81 grains (0.55 gm.) of sodium amytal intravenously. The convulsion stopped and the patient relaxed completely and went to sleep. . . . On the third day she was normal...
Antiseptics. The whole philosophy of antiseptics was contained in a few words read by Herbert Clifton Hamilton, pharmacologist of Parke, Davis & Co.: "No one antiseptic will kill all kinds of germs. For example, the tetanus germ, which causes lockjaw, can be put into pure carbolic acid and remain in perfect health. Aniline dyes, which are widely used for cuts and skin injuries, kill only certain germs and leave others, equally dangerous, unscathed...