All 12 Uses of
diphtheria
in
Arrowsmith
- It furnished excellent antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus, as well as the purest of official preparations, with the plainest and most official-looking labels on the swaggeringly modest brown bottles.†
Chpt 13
- We'll start with anti-diphtheria serum.†
Chpt 13 *
- It was, he decided, laryngeal croup or diphtheria.†
Chpt 15
- Probably diphtheria.†
Chpt 15
- He would use diphtheria antitoxin.†
Chpt 15
- In his mind all the while was the page in Osler regarding diphtheria, the very picture of the words: "In severe cases the first dose should be from 8,000—"†
Chpt 15
- Kid dying from diphtheria.†
Chpt 15
- But he did have diphtheria antitoxin in his shop, and sixteen minutes after Martin's escape from being killed by a train he was speeding to Henry Novak's.†
Chpt 15
- Being called to attend the little daughter of Henry Norwalk of near Delft the well-known farmer and finding the little one near death with diphtheria he made a desperate attempt to save it by himself bringing antitoxin from Blassner our ever popular druggist, who had on hand a full and fresh supply.†
Chpt 15
- When the neighborhood suddenly achieved a real epidemic of diphtheria and Martin shakily preached antitoxin, one-half of them remembered his failure to save Mary Novak and the other half clamored, "Oh, give us a rest!†
Chpt 18
- But there was a little laboratory work: milk tests, Wassermanns for private physicians, the making of vaccines, cultures in suspected diphtheria.†
Chpt 19
- Oh, Lord, if they'll only give me a little time and not send me back to tacking up diphtheria posters!"†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(diphtheria) acute contagious infection that is marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing