Word: tetanus
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...their cheeks tattooed a permanent pink and their lips scarred into a stiff cupid's bow have become problems to the physician. The needles with which the tattooer punctures his customer's flesh are often unsterilized, the dyes that he soaks into the needle-pits polluted. Frequent results: gangrene, tetanus (lockjaw), leprosy, amputation, tuberculosis, blood poisoning.?Marvin D. Shie of Cleveland...
...epidemics, reported by each city to be well in hand, called forth fresh outbursts from antiserum faddists, notably Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle to vulgarians of "physical culture." Macfadden's Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which...
...first systematic investigation of Abrams is now under way, by the Scientific American (also investigating psychic phenomena?TIME, June 4). To an Abrams practitioner in New York, six tubes were submitted, containing pure cultures of typhoid, pneumococcus, colon septicaemia, tetanus, tuberculosis, diphtheria. None of them was correctly diagnosed, and all gave marked "ohmages" and vibratory rates for a number of diseases. Various explanations for the failure were made, and Dr. Abrams has promised to give personal demonstrations in New York for the Scientific American. An electrical expert, investigating for Science and Invention, points out technical inconsistencies which would condemn...
...Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine. "Observations on Dosage and Methods of Injecting Antitoxin in the Treatment and Prevention of Diphtheria and Tetanus," by Dr. W. H. Park. Amphitheatre of Building E. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine. "Observations on Dosage and Methods of Injecting Antitoxin in the Treatment and Prevention of Diphtheria and Tetanus," by Dr. W. H. Park, Director of Research Laboratories, Department of Health, New York City, in the Amphitheater of Building E, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston. Members of the Medical School, the Medical Profession, and the Press are cordially invited...