A LUCKY FIND
MAN'S LIFE SAVED
Eighteen'years ago a coastguard\on the Isle' of Wight picked up a small box washed ashore from a torpedoed hospital ship. He took it to a chemist; states a correspondent. ■ '
Eighteen years ago Dr. Robertson, now chairman- of the- island's public health committee, had in his charge at a Ventnpr convalescent home a .wounded soldier who had. developed tetanus. Anti-toxin treatment was then' barely proved/ and 'no serum was available. When ( Dr. Robertson, mentioned tlie tnan.'s-plight to a' chemist he fetched the box the coastguard had brought him. It contained a phial <jf,' antitetanus scrum. And the man's life was saved. Ever since then, said Dr. Robertson lately, referring to a statement at a'"Guildford inquest that no anti-tetanus serum was available in"the Isle of Wight, the island had never Been without the serum.
"The phial," added the -doctor, "which.contained the serum so providentially supplied was sent to the Imperial Waj Museum.'^ '■ """'.-
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 13
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156A LUCKY FIND Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 13
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