Surgery


Soldier, vaccination

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After the discovery of the principle, the industrial production of tetanus antitoxin (also called tetanus serum) was recorded from about 1896. Therefore, at the outbreak of the war in 1914 there was not enough serum, and from August to December 1914 there were 3.8% of the approximately 400,000 wounded with tetanus (the same percentage as in the war of 1870/71). From January 1915 all wounded could be supplied with serum, whereupon the tetanus diseases dropped to 0.4 per thousand.

 

Presented is a 7 cm high group of figures of the German company "LINEOL GERMANY". which is often referred to as a "doctor examines arm". Since there are no traces of blood on the arm, and the patient is shown standing, it should not be an injury, but a vaccine, especially since the soldier has not even taken off the jacket that hangs casually over the left shoulder.

 

Oskar Wilhelm Wiederholz (1877-1955) experimented from about 1903 on a material that was to be suitable for the industrial production of toy figures. The invented by him "mass" consisted of wood flour, chalk, linseed oil and bone glue and was hot pressed into metal molds. His invention he called Lineol. In 1906 he founded a.d. Havel the Lineol AG. Military vehicles were soon missing under no Christmas tree; the companies Elastolin / Max Hausser and Lineol / Wiederholz produced whole soldier regiments and military vehicles of the highest quality.

 

Two vaccinations were common in the German Army in 1914:

- the vaccine against cholera, which was often done on the eastern front.

- vaccination against tetanus.