Word: tetanus
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...those of such pioneers as Mesmer and Charcot, of such well-known hypnotists as Bernheim, Binet, Féré, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating stammering and certain hysterical neuroses. Dr. Cannon believes it is useful in treating tetanus, diabetes, prostatic enlargement, menstrual disorders and in relieving the pain of childbirth, pleurisy, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, cancer, ulcers...
...ships for sunstroke cases. He proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...
...Elliott Proctor Joslin of Boston and Dr. Frederick Grant Banting of Toronto, Nobel Prizeman, co-discoverer of insulin; Nutrition, supervised by Dr. Reginald Fitz of Boston; Prevention of Asphyxial Deaths, supervised by Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson (son) of Philadelphia; Vaccines & Serums (measles, rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, tetanus), supervised by Dr. Ralph Chester Williams of Washington. In addition there will be some 200 less extensive scientific exhibits illustrating Medicine's progress. Among the 200 will be Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe's "Chart Life'' of the Dionne Quintuplets...
...stipulating that in case of death the insurance company was not to look into its manner or cause. Immediately thereafter intrigue mounted rapidly. Benoyendra set Drs. Bhattacharya, Bhattacharyee and Dhar to "ransacking all India" for a subtle poison with which to kill Amarendra. The conspirators acquired a store of tetanus germs. Benoyendra smeared the tetanus germs on the nose piece of a pair of spectacles and with firm solicitude jammed them on Amarendra's face. Amarendra contracted tetanus, sinusitis, other ills. But prayers and medicine saved his life that time...
...construction of Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge was the idea of John Augustus Roebling, the first U. S. engineer to use a steel strand in bridge-building. His foot was crushed in 1869 while making a preliminary survey for Brooklyn Bridge and 18 days later he lay dead of tetanus infection. The work was carried on by his young son Washington Augustus Roebling. an engineer proud of his Civil War-earned rank of Colonel. His specialty was caisson construction and he spent much time in high-pressure chambers under the East River. He contracted the "bends" a disease feared...