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| ==Overview==
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| ==Famous tetanus victims==
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| * [[George Montagu]] - English ornithologist; contracted tetanus when he stepped on a nail.
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| * Joe Powell - English footballer; contracted following [[amputation]] of a badly broken arm.
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| * John A. Roebling - Civil Engineer and Architect famous for his bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge; contracted following amputation of his foot due to an injury caused by a ferry when it crashed into a wharf.
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| * George Crockett Strong - Union brigadier general in the American Civil War; from wounds sustained in the assault against Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina.
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| * Fred Thomson - silent film actor; stepped on a nail.
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| * Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly; wounded by a cannon ball in the Battle of Rain.
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| * Traveller - General Robert E. Lee's favorite horse; stepped on a nail.
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| * John Thoreau; brother of Henry David Thoreau
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| ==References==
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