Tetanus Quotes

• In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Fear, Example

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
  for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
  There was no satisfactory answer.

  Jonas Salk

  Preparation, Answers, Disease

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• (Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Yellow, Sick, House

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• I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. “Cody, will you take me to the nearest clinic? I need someone to dig the knife out of my back. Lexis might need it again. And the good doctor might want to give me a tetanus shot. I think she bled on me.” Stunned silence. I often had that effect.

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Doctors, Rome

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Twice as Hot”, p.84, Harlequin

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