The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-28
10y PISTOLS.
AND TETAUUS
SOME TIMELY ADVICE ABOUT
THESE DEADLY TOYS
CANNON CRACKERS, ETC
Must Be Cut Out of the Small Boys
List of Explosives This
| Year.
CANNON CRACKERS, ETC

Now that the Fourth Of July is
about to be celebrated, we can
look forward to the festive toy pistol
cannon fire crackers and other dan
gerous pyrotechnics with honest
dread. If parents would only realize
the danger in these Instruments of
misery and death they would see toj
it that not toy pistol or cannon
cracker would enter theeir homes.
You will see fathers and mothers
who have a horror of diphtheria,
scarlet fever, etc, who re gard eX-
plosives as sometimes their small boy
must have and cannot possibly get
along without. They will stand aghast
from these terrible diseases and look
on with pleasure at toy pistols and
cannon crackers in which there is
more danger of death than in the con-
tagious diseases. Let a toy pistol
explode in a boys hand and then
tetanus set in. What is his condi-
ton? Ask any physician. They
often die in the worst kind of spasms
| and nine times out of ten the result
is fatal. A case in point has just
come to notice in Cincinnati, where
boy ran a rusty nail into his foot
! (Which results the same as powder).
Something more than a week ago
George Wenninger, who is Is years
old stepped on a rusty nail, which
penetrated the sole Of his shoe and
ran into his foot, making an ugly
wound. He paid little attention to
it for several days, when it began to
pain him, and he went to the Deac-
oness Hospital to have it treated.
The physician treated the wound, and
last Wednesday Wenninger came
back with every symptom of lock-
jaw. Thursday the disease had as
sumed its worst form, and the spasms
which are the dangerous symptoms of
the disease, began. For ten hours
Drs. Chidlaw and Martindell never
left the bedside of their patient, and
when they did they were satisfied
that he would recover.
The unfortunate young man was
placed under the influence of chloro-
form as soon as the spasms began and
the preparations for the injection of
anti toxin begun. The maximum
dose of anti toxin is 100000 units,
but it was decided to multiply this
by ten b ythe doctors. and accord
ingly they prepared 100000 units
and injected it into Wenninger. For
ten hours he struggled in the spasms
and then, to the surprise Of the doc
tor and nurses, he began to be more
quiet, and the spasms gradually grew
less and less terrible. BY Friday
morning the patient was out Of dam
ger. Physicians who saw Wenniger
Thursday say that it was one of the
most violent cases Of tetanus they
had ever seen, and that he recovered
is regarded as something akin to a
miracle.
; Cincinnati physicians say there is
not case like it recorded and local
physicians say the cure is certainly
most remarkable.
Superintendent Gormon says he will
instruct every policeman on the force
to arrest every small or large boy
caught with a toy pictol or cannon
cracker on or before July 4th. He
says if every city will look to this
matter hundreds of lives will be saved
each and every year. Mr.. Gormon
says if parents do not look after this
matter he will take it in his own
hands.
The action of the superintendent
is certainly most commendable and
this paper will do everything 1t can
to keep death from tetanus or lock-
Jaw from the homes of Richmond.