Inocculation
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A soldier was wounded by a shrapnel of a Trench but remained in the Bn after being inocculated. What kind of inocculation would that be? It can't be tetanus because that vaccine only exsists since 1927.
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ral104
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They did have anti-tetanus serum, Erik, so it might have been that. As I understand it, it wasn't a preventative vaccination, but was administered after the damage was done.
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David_Underdown
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I think there might have been an injection against gas gangrene too
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cyngast
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It probably was for tetanus. During World War I, wounded soldiers on both sides of the Western Front were given an injection of an anti-tetanus serum after unprecedented numbers of wounded men developed tetanus in September and October, 1914. This anti-toxin was not the same as the modern vaccine. The serum gave protection for only 7 to 10 days, and severely wounded men were sometimes given multiple injections while they recovered. This article https://pure.knaw.nl/ws/files/479886/Van_Bergen_-_Prevention_of_tetanus_during_the_First_World_War.pdf explains it in more detail.
I was amused to see that the song on page 1, right-hand column, exactly describes your man's experience!
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Gas Gangrene in the First World War
There is an article about this with photographs. Link. http://www.kumc.edu/wwi/index-of-essays/gas-gangrene.html
Also an article on treatment Link: https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1DSGL_enGB426GB426&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=gas+gangrene+treatment
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