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...second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
Preparing for his Korean trip in a manner painfully familiar to all ex-servicemen, General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week rolled up his sleeves for six "booster" shots-yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, typhus, typhoid and tetanus. Though this is a process which virtually guarantees the victim two sore arms and a fever, Ike showed no visible signs of discomfort as he bustled through a busy week of conferences, callers and ceremonies...
Juniors going on this summer's NROTC cruise to Europe got five shots apiece yesterday. Schick tests, tetanus boosters, typhoid shots, and vaccinations came in rapid succession...
...Postnasal tetanus...
...Army has used two basic treatments. In one-the "let-alone method"-the frostbitten tissue is gently cleaned and dressed loosely. The patient gets 300,000 units of penicillin and an anti-tetanus injection, and is then evacuated to a hospital where he is kept in a room at 78° temperature and forbidden to smoke (smoking lowers skin temperature, slows down recovery by hampering circulation in the extremities). The second method follows most of the same rules but adds four injections a day of "frostbite solution"-250 ccs of alcohol, procaine, and, unless the man is wounded, the anticoagulant...