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Antiseptics. The whole philosophy of antiseptics was contained in a few words read by Herbert Clifton Hamilton, pharmacologist of Parke, Davis & Co.: "No one antiseptic will kill all kinds of germs. For example, the tetanus germ, which causes lockjaw, can be put into pure carbolic acid and remain in perfect health. Aniline dyes, which are widely used for cuts and skin injuries, kill only certain germs and leave others, equally dangerous, unscathed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists at Buffalo | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

McMiller, badly scratched, bustled Vivian to a hospital. She was slashed from occiput to chin; her neck and arms were clawed; 50 stitches had to be taken. Cincinnati authorities recovered the lioness for a tetanus examination from Monroe, Ohio, where Harwood had hurried with all his animals in an automobile for another showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Come On In | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...took from his pocket several tubes which contained small yellow grains of crystal-like appearance, but which he explained as amorphous forms of the dried venom, which is an albuminous substance, whose chemical composition is about five to 12 times as complex as the tetanus toxin. These dried venoms, he explained, are sent to the central institute, are dissolved in brine and glycerine and the solution is injected into horses in successive increments. The reaction of this poison with the cells of the horse produces antibodies. After a lapse of time the horse is bled and the serum proteins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brazilian Authority on Snake-Bite Antitoxin Discusses Serums--Hindus Prefer Death to Harming Sacred Cobra | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

Control and cure of diphtheria, rabies, yellow fever, typhoid fever, pneumonia, tetanus, and innumerable other diseases and pathological surgical conditions has been effected, like the above, by dealings with dogs and guinea pigs and rabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. Flayed | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Layer under layer like tetanus, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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