All About Tetanus and the Tetanus Shot

3. Researches have studied tetanus since ancient times.

Tetanus is a deadly disease that our ancestors were well aware of, and studied, even in ancient times. The Greek physician Hippocrates, the namesake of the Hippocratic oath taken by all doctors, described tetanus in one of his manuscripts from the 5th century B.C. However, scientists and doctors did not understand the cause of the disease until 1884, when Italian scientists Antonio Carle and Giorgio Rattone of the University of Turin demonstrated the transmissibility of the disease.

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