In article ,
Mary Fisher" writes:
| "Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote in message
| ...
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| My Mum, who was a nurse, told me that it was painful because of the large
| volume of liquid injected. They probably gave it on the bum (pardon the
| expression) so that you could not see the massive syringe.

Tetanus has not had to inject a large volume since 1950 (I can't speak
for before then), and has never been amoung the nastier injections.
It has normally been given in the shoulder, and the syringe never was
massive.

Compared to TAB (Typhoid and Paratyphoid A and B), it was and less
nasty - the latter caused and causes a lot of bad reactions.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.