Traditional treatment of 194 cases of te
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Anthony Busuttil; John B. Pace; Joseph A. Muscat
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Article
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1974
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract A retrospective survey of tetanus was undertaken for the decade 1957โ66 in the Maltese islands. The 194 cases of tetanus reported were treated solely along the conservative lines of sedation, antitoxin and antibiotics. The mortality rate of 22 per cent for the whole series compares favo