Millard County Chronicle | 1913-04-03 | Page 8 | Lockjaw Sup??Tion Exploded.

Lockjaw Supc (,on txpioosa. There Is a peculiar, but at the same time widespread t.erstltlon about lockjaw that shu!. one be cut between be-tween the first finger and the thumb this toTlble disease Is sure to follow. However, an eminent firltlsh scientist, scien-tist, who Is an authority on tetanus, to give the disease Its scientific name, baa Just given a vigorous contradiction to this superstition. A cut between the thumb and tinner Is no more likely like-ly to cause lockjaw than a cut between any of the other Angers, be says. It Is not tbe position of the cut that brings on the disease, but the germs that get Into the wound. i