Search Details

Word: tetanus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Pursers are taught how to bandage, administer laxatives, penicillin, sulfa drugs, morphine, plasma. They learn to make chest X rays and Wassermann tests, to immunize against typhus, tetanus, typhoid, smallpox. They get a smattering of psychology, more than a smattering of ship sanitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Purser Doctors | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...acute appendix operation in 1921. Ten years later a New York taxicab knocked him down, gave him lacerations and pleurisy. He recovered with the aid of 3,000 units of anti-tetanus serum. Only ten months ago he had another attack of pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One More Close Call | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Manthorp also helps each man buy the right correspondent's uniform for the climate he will work in (average cost $358). He sees that they get the right inoculations against as many as nine diseases-typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus for everywhere-plus yellow fever and typhus for the South Pacific or Africa-plus cholera, bubonic and pulmonic plague for Asia (the tetanus inoculations alone take 42 days). And through Lloyds of London we take out a $25,000 personal insurance policy for each TIME traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...their shots Friday with a vengeance--flank movement with merchurochrome, pincers of tetanus and typhoid, and out. But the worst was yet to come, whispered the mob, just wait till it hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's An Order, Instructor; Handle With Velvet Gloves | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

...residue. Parke, Davis & Co., which does Detroit's blood processing for the Red Cross, developed a way to use the remainder to make peptone-bacteria food ordinarily made from various animal proteins (like hog's stomach, etc.). This new human peptone feeds bacteria cultures grown to make tetanus toxoid, typhoid vaccines and other shots for the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Saver | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | Next