Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where your lips can reach it, suck it out thoroughly. Then bathe it in lukewarm (not hot) water and paint it with iodine. And don't worry. You are in no danger. If you are afraid the biter had rabies-which he almost never has-use the same treatment but paint the wound with carbolic acid instead of iodine...
Denouncing this attitude as "subversive," Editor Fishbein declared that dog bites are not matters for self-treatment but for physicians and public health officials. As against Mr. Terhune's belief in the rarity of hydrophobia, he gave these data...
...least that can be done," said Dr. Fishbein, "is to cauterize the wound and place the biter under observation in the city pound or a dog hospital. If he develops the disease, begin the Pasteur treatment at once if it has not already been started. ... In 99 out of every 100 cases treated, Pasteur treatment protects against a disease that is always fatal once it develops...
...first Pasteur treatment was given almost 50 years ago. . . . The failure of victims to avail themselves of this formidable weapon . . . can be attributed largely to ignorance, carelessness, indifference and the widespread dissemination of such advice as that found in Mr. Terhune's article...
...Osteopathic manipulations to stimulate circulation in the affected parts and thus build up the natural immunity of the body against the onslaught of the virus of infantile paralysis was the only treatment of the disease which proved its effectiveness. Osteopathic treatment after the disease ran its course has uniformly shown improvement in paralytic conditions."- Osteopath James Watson of Los Angeles...