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Jonathan
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Date Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2012, 08:40: pm
In reply to:
Steve
's message, "How common were injections in the posterior?" on Monday, November 19, 2012, 01:43: am
I grew up in the 50s-60s. We got smallpox, several polio, tetanus, and I think DTP (though that may have arrived later.) We didn't routinely get vaccinations against measles or chicken pox as they do now, though I get a shot for measles (I think it was) just after my older sister contracted them. This was not to prevent them, but give me a milder case. Penicillin was also a pretty common prescription and I guess they didn't have the pills then.
The "best" were the oral Polio vaccines which only involved standing in a long line and eating a sugar cube. Smallpox and some of the polio I got in the arm. But most seemed to be in the bottom. Penicillin always seemed to even as a teen. I think this was simply a matter that a child's arm even at 8 is pretty small, a child can jerk his arm out of the way, but not his bottom if he's lying flat, and privacy didn't seem to be a issue.
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