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Updated: May 18, 2025
I received his farewell between Gaza and El-Arish, where, he died of tetanus. His modest tomb will not be often visited. The siege of St. Jean d'Acre lasted sixty days. During that time eight-assaults and-twelve sorties took place. In the assault of the 8th of May more than 200 men penetrated into the town.
The impartial eye of science observes ugliness as well as beauty, disorder as well as order, in nature. If there is evidence of design in a rose, there is at least as much evidence of design in the tubercle bacillus, and the tetanus bacillus. Whatever in nature produced the peacock produced the itch-mite; whatever produced man produced the spirochete of syphilis.
Not having the hospital base and equipment of other countries, they heal their wounds in the open air with the result that there is no tetanus or lock-jaw. In Switzerland human tuberculosis is now being cured by exposing the chest, directly over the affection, to the full rays of the sun. The casualties of this war have been tremendous for France.
The spasms abated, then recommenced; abated, then raged with increased fury. But through it all she was conscious; she had even the power of speech, and cried aloud again and again, with a bitter heart-wrung cry, for "Harold! Harold!" the absent much-wronged son. "The symptoms are those of tetanus," said the nearest medical practitioner, who had been called in. He seemed fairly puzzled.
I tried to keep my eyes on my work, but first his toes and then his hands filled all my mind, till at last I had to look up and meet the eyes again. Still looking as though he had seen a ghost a beast of a ghost...! In hospital since Mons.... "I wonder how many men he has seen die of tetanus?" I thought. "He's got the jumps," I thought. So had I. Suppose Sister was wrong!
When I did get her on her feet, I found the only injury was a slight cut on the wrist, and great was my relief. My only fear was tetanus. We have been told such tales of a slight cut causing death that I hurried G. along until we burst breathless into a chemist's shop in Park Street and demanded "something to keep away tetanus!"
Apart from the tetanus germ, however, the problem of the treatment of wounds while there should be perfect cleanliness, the spotlessness of the model housekeeper multiplied fivefold is yet not so much a matter of keeping dirt in general out of the wound, as of keeping out that particular form of dirt which consists of or contains, discharges from some previous wound, sore, ulcer, or boil!
The characteristic symptoms may appear within three or four days of the infliction of the wound, but the incubation period may extend to three weeks, and the wound may be quite healed before the disease declares itself delayed tetanus. Usually, however, the wound is inflamed and suppurating, with ragged and sloughy edges.
"Oh, let the Bishop take another man for that, you are the minister for us." He is, you know, wonderfully tatooed, and a great object of curiosity to the boys! Before many days had passed, there had occurred the first case of that fatal tetanus, which became only too well known to those concerned in the Mission.
So many cases of lockjaw used to follow the Fourth of July celebrations a few years ago, that Boards of Health became alarmed, and not only forbade outright the sale of deadly toy pistols, but provided supplies of the tetanus antitoxin at various depots throughout the cities, so that all patriotic wounds of this description could have it dropped into them when they were dressed.
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