Word: tetanus
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...Standard tetanus anti-toxin treatment such as might be given in mass quantities to air raid casualties, would be extremely dangerous to the 40 per cent of the student body who suffer from slight or serious allergies, the Hygiene Department stated, as it advised such people to take advantage of a newly developed tetanus toxoid serum...
People who have inherited hay fever or asthma, who have taken pneumonia serum, or who have suffered previously from the old tetanus anti-toxin, may become gravely ill if given a fresh dose, and anyone who has had the treatment less than five years ago is also liable to a reaction...
...printed in this morning's Scuttle-butt, all S-O's are scheduled to take a series of shots and vaccines before they leave in late August. Each man is to be given two tetanus shots, three typhoid injections, one yellow fever shot, and a small pox vaccination...
Since the old scourge of tetanus can be controlled by injections of antitoxin, the main germ to worry about in open wounds is the bacillus which causes gas gangrene. Open wounds should be treated thus: 1) all glass, bullets, stones, shrapnel, etc. must be cut out of the wound; 2) all dead and bruised tissue-breeding grounds for the bacillus-must be snipped away so that the blood stream can get directly at the germs and destroy them; 3) sulfanilamide powder should be sprinkled on the raw surface, and the patient kept at rest...
Before he went they inoculated him against tetanus, typhoid, typhus, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever. The nine shots in rapid-fire almost floored...