Word: tetanus
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...blood-colored movies and in the flesh, Dr. Norman A. Christensen of the Mayo Clinic urged his colleagues at the A.M.A. to embark on a crusade. What he wants is nothing less than an all-out campaign to eradicate tetanus in the U.S. by having every man, woman and child immunized with toxoid and periodic booster shots...
There have been 256 tetanus deaths in the U.S. this year, and Dr. Christensen argued that almost all of them were avoidable. For proof, he cited the record of the U.S. armed forces in World War II: among 12 million in uniform, there were only 16 confirmed cases of tetanus (with six deaths...
...diabetic who has a "shock" reaction to his insulin is likely to be mistaken for a drunk; he may die in the lockup before anybody realizes what is wrong. A person who is allergic to penicillin or tetanus antitoxin may die within minutes after an injection which is routinely given to accident victims. Heart patients on a precise digitalis dosage and arthritics on steroid hormones are in serious danger if their medication is suddenly stopped. Atropine, or similar drugs, given to glaucoma patients may contribute to blindness...
Today more than 100,000 Americans are wearing a lifesaving bracelet designed to prevent such accidents. It was made originally for Linda Collins of Turlock, Calif., who was so hypersensitive to tetanus antitoxin serum that the tiny amount used in a scratch test* after she cut her finger one day in 1956 made her collapse in convulsions. Her father, Surgeon Marion Collins, figured that a full dose of antitoxin would have killed Linda; he decided that for future protection his daughter should wear a dog tag proclaiming her allergy. Linda talked him into making the tag into a silver bracelet...
...earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes of his autobiography-The Golden Echo and Flowers of the Forest. In the present volume he opens, with a necrology-a list of the old familiar faces that disappeared from his world in the 1930s by suicide, bomb, cancer, tetanus, flying, steeplechasing and assorted other agents. The Familiar Faces is their obituary...