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Subject: Re: Gamma globulin shot clinics

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Peter

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Date Posted: Thursday, July 07, 2011, 05:29: pm
In reply to: Phillip 's message, "Gamma globulin shot clinics" on Wednesday, July 06, 2011, 10:01: pm

I don't know about the current situation but I remember in the fifties they had clinics for such shots before they used the Salk Vaccine I guess. They would line the kids up usually accompanied by a parent and in turn the kids would have their pants lowered and be lifted onto a table to be at a good working height for the doctor and nurses. The injection would be given and the crying child removed to be replaced by the next terrified victim.

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Walt
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:59: pm

I was one of those kids who got the Salk polio shots in 1955-56 when I would have been about age 5. My dad was in the military so the process was done in an assembly line fashion. In my case, a technician used a red-tinted alcohol scrub which left a stain on the upper arm where he applied it. I received the injection in that arm & not in my butt as Peter suggested. I remember going through this at least twice & only my infant brother in diapers got the injection in his butt area.

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