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] Date Posted:04:12:19 11/07/09 Sat In reply to:
Tim
's message, "Was Penicillin Given For Everything?" on 05:50:55 11/05/09 Thu
I did read some stuff on the net about gamma gobulin as it was givin a lot to kids in the early 50,s as a prevention for polio before the salk-sabin vaccine came on the market i think it the late 50,s??? I also read that the gg shots at that time were a large single 10cc dose for both adults & children, Must have been a lot of sore bums back in them good ole days.
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Date Posted:00:03:52 11/09/09 Mon
That was before my time, but I have heard that penicillin was given for everything from a sore throat to the flu to a bad cold in the '60s.
Did anyone here have to get a gamma globulin shot in the 50s or 60s? If so, what was that like?
Date Posted:12:27:30 11/09/09 Mon
In response to Jason's comment on the polio vaccines in the 1950s & 1960s:
Salk's vaccine was announced publicly in April 1955. I remember standing in long lines to get the polio shots soon afterward to receive the shot(s) which was given in the upper arm. The Sabin oral vaccine was given out in the early 1960s, probably 1963-64. They put drops of vaccine in standard sugar cubes which the receiver simply melted in the mouth.
